Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Be a Scientist, NOT a Drill Sergeant #shorts

Name: Be a Scientist, NOT a Drill Sergeant #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-09-08T16:00:37+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short monologue by Nir Eyal explaining a flexible approach to timeboxing: treat experiments like a scientist rather than a drill sergeant. He warns…

8 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short monologue by Nir Eyal explaining a flexible approach to timeboxing: treat experiments like a scientist rather than a drill sergeant. He warns against rigid, prescriptive timeboxes that threaten autonomy (e.g., requiring exact mileage/pace for runs) and advocates allowing adaptable activity within scheduled time.

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Many people, when they think about timeboxing, they feel like it's going to be very rigid, approaching it like a drill sergeant instead of a scientist. Like they are going to have to do exactly what they said they would do when they would say it. For example, when I exercise, I have time in my timebox calendar every day for some kind of physical activity. The wrong way to timebox, the way that you risk eliciting psychological reactance, is to say, oh, on Wednesday, I have to go run this much mileage and I have to do this kind of pace. And it becomes very, very rigid. And it feels like something that is encroaching on your agency, on freedom.