Stop Multitasking and Try Timeboxing
Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player
Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickin. You ever reach the end of a work day and say to yourself The day kind of got away from me. You started out with a list of things to accomplish. But you got distracted, they piled up, and it feels like you never made any headway.
You're not alone, it's an all too familiar feeling nowadays, feeling unproductive and anxious. It's all too common to look back on the day, the week, the month, or the year. and feel like you never ended up doing what you wanted to do. Today's guest is here to tell you about a productivity practice called time boxing. It's the idea that you decide ahead of time what you'll spend your time on each day and for how long. The idea that you stick to the calendar you set for yourself, truly focusing on one task at a time.
Our guest today says it's not just a method. It's a mindset. and he's here to help us learn how to take it on. Mark Zhao Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of the learning technology company Filter.com And he's the author of the book Time Boxing, The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time. Mark, thanks for being here.
We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (25 minutes, 4,784 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.
No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.