795: The Question That Frees an Hour a Day, with Neal Schore

Neal Schore: The 25th Hour

Neal Schore is the founder and CEO of 25th Hour Group, an executive coaching and leadership events firm. Previously, he served as the founder, president, and CEO of Triton Digital, a global technology, data, and services leader in the digital audio and podcast industry. He is the author of The 25th Hour: How to Thrive (And Gain Ridiculous
Amounts of Time) By Getting Out of Your Own Way (Amazon, Bookshop)*.

No productivity approach can negotiate with physics. How we manage time is really how we manage ourselves. In this conversation, Neal and I explore a key question to help us shift from ordinary to exceptional.

Key Points

• Swirling shows up for all of us when we ruminate on an interaction in a way that’s not helpful.
• Most people don’t think to ask about others’ intent.
• The key question to shift our thinking: “What’s the intent?”
• Ordinary thinking goes with the flow. Exceptional thinking pauses and allows us to consider the intent behind the interaction.
• To free time each day, pause before responding in a complex situation and ask yourself, “What’s the intent?”
• This question becomes powerful when you can ask and answer yourself without needing to say it out loud.

Resources Mentioned

• The 25th Hour: How to Thrive (And Gain Ridiculous Amounts of Time) By Getting Out of Your Own Way by Neal Schore (Amazon, Bookshop)*

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