The cliche “timing is everything” may be overused, but Daniel Pink’s new book When makes it clear just how important and accurate that saying is for each of us in our daily personal and professional lives.
In his latest book, Daniel pulls from numerous scientific studies to demonstrate not just how to best use your time every day, but how to leverage and even manipulate time to our own advantage.
Four specific lessons I took from the book:
Find and use your “peak” times every day: For most of us (about 75 percent in fact) our peak time is in the morning, followed by a trough in the early afternoon and a modest rebound in the early evening. For night owls it’s the opposite. The idea is that you schedule your most important work, your hardest work, during your peak times. Do easier work (answering email for example) during your trough.
Start over (literally whenever
