Best Reads: How to Prevent Burnout Using Timeboxing

Best Reads: How to Prevent Burnout Using Timeboxing

In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across important stories on how psychology influences our behavior. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I hope you enjoy them!

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How to Prevent Burnout Using Timeboxing (NirAndFar) We're facing a burnout epidemic that goes beyond work. Understanding its causes can help us fix it.

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Surprise! There's a Right Way to Multitask [AUDIO] (Podcast) Here's how to get more out of your day without overtaxing your brain.

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TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks (The New York Times) TikTok's real power isn't over our data. It's over what users watch and create.

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Why Lawyers Aren't Hooked on Legal Technology ... Yet (Law) Building technology for lawyers is hard. Building tech that lawyers will use instinctively is even harder.

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Happy reading!

- Nir


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Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com

Stephanie Hilborn

Catalyst | Transformational Thought Leader | Youth and Peacebuilding Expert | Educator | Mental Health and Trauma Specialist

2 年

I love this. The topic, the format. It's very well written. And am so excited to find your content! It is a great intro to burnout. I'm a former diplomat and can relate as my PTSD from warzones got retriggered during the pandemic. I have to say, however, that there is a piece that is missing. For years I was admiring my Israeli friend who sets her schedule by the 15 minute timeframe and I couldn't really even bring myself to use a schedule and calendar. So there actually are quite a few steps for example, before you can timebox that might need to be mentioned. And I've been told these practices might need some adaptation for ADHD neurodivergency from some of my clients. Getting someone who is perpetually time challenged and burntout to use a new system is optimistic at best. I even had coaches that were trying to help me use a calendar a few years ago. It's a process. I love the piece on connecting with values and your time. I'll look at the download. The piece that might be missing is the following - coaching people through resistances. That's what I do as a life coach. I start to see if there is a resistance to scheduling and then work with them on that. Then helping to work through time management.

Grace Yang

Part-time IKEA @ IKEA Foundation | Sales, Strategy

2 年

@be able to ?

Dimitry Ortiz

If You Want to Delegate It, Automate It | Business Intelligent Automation | Digital Transformation I Negativity Terminator

2 年

Timeboxing is an excellent method, Nir Eyal.

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