This week on the Playing-It-Safe podcast, we are diving deep into the psychology of time, procrastination, and flow.
We are bypassing the standard “productivity culture” advice and looking at what the research actually says!
This is the episode for the person who knows all the time management strategies and is still stuck.
Show notes with time-stamps
0:00 The friend who “worked better under pressure”
1:57 Using stories about time as permission to wait
2:58 Kahneman and Tversky’s planning fallacy
3:40 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s research on flow states
4:38 Principle 1: Add a 25% time buffer to estimates
4:49 Principle 2: Energy scheduling over time scheduling
5:19 Principle 3: Designing for flow rather than efficiency
5:43 Principle 4: The two-minute completion focus
6:51 This week’s challenge: examine your beliefs about time
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