A mindset shift to streamline your calendar

✅ Today’s tip: For your next important task, choose “event time,” not “clock time.”

Research has shown that people tend to think of time in one of two ways: “People in cultures that operate on clock time schedule their lives according to, well, the time on the clock,” David Kadavy writes. “Those who work on event time, on the other hand, run their days by responding to what’s happening: When I’m hungry, I’ll eat lunch. This meeting will end once we’ve met the objective.”

If your goal is to get something done quickly, Kadavy explains, clock time is the way to go. But if your goal is to do something well — especially something that requires creative thinking — choose event time. “Ideas arrive unpredictably,” he writes, so give them the time they need to reach you.

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