Stop Managing Your Time. Start Managing Your Energy and Attention

In this episode, we break down why clock-based planning often fails and why the real bottlenecks are energy, attention, and cognitive load. We talk about protecting peak hours, matching the right task to the right mental state, reducing attention residue, and planning recovery on purpose. We also share practical ways to notice how sleep, stress, meetings, and device distraction affect output far more than calendar math.

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Cheat Sheet

• Top 3 Productivity Resources [4:03]
• Is a $3,000 phone actually a productivity upgrade? [7:22]
• Why the hour you blocked off still doesn’t get used [8:53]
• The one-hour meeting that’s really costing you two [16:46]
• The classic GTD scheduling advice Brooks had to throw out [21:11]
• Three things to do before you expect your brain to focus [23:09]
• What Thanh’s ring told him after three afternoons of crashing [24:39]
• The “head trash” that makes a messy system even harder to fix [31:06]