# Ep. 261 — Control Your Time  ## About - Author: Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Title: Ep. 261 — Control Your Time - URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/14feba33-069f-4b86-90bf-b7ea2a536f29 ## Excerpts #productivity Benefits of Time Blocking: Increased Efficiency and Flexibility 2x Transcript: Speaker 1 So the goal is not to predict perfectly at the beginning of your day exactly how long things are going to take. It is instead to have some sort of intention behind what you're doing with your time at any moment during the day. So that's time block planning. You make a plan for every hour of your day. You have a clear shutdown for when that plan is done and then you switch from time blocking mode into a much more relaxed mode. So why does time blocking work so well? And again, my claim with time blocking is it's 2x more efficient. You give me an amount of work. How much time does it take you to get that work done without time blocking? Cut that in half if you're using time blocking. ---