785: How to Improve Focus and Productivity through Smarter Deadlines with Christopher Cox

<p>Christopher Cox discusses how to leverage deadlines to curb procrastination, improve productivity, and deliver better results.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>— YOU’LL LEARN —&nbsp;</strong></p><p>1) The worst possible deadline you can give yourself<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>2) The trick restaurateurs and theater artists use to consistently deliver quality<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>3) The trick to making self-imposed deadlines more motivating<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Subscribe or visit</strong> <a href="http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep785" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep785</a> for clickable versions of the links below.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>— ABOUT CHRISTOPHER —&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Christopher Cox has written about politics, business, books, and science for <em>The New York Times</em> <em>Magazine</em>, <em>GQ</em>, <em>Harper’s</em>, <em>Wired</em>, and <em>Slate</em>. In 2020, he was named a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He was formerly the chief editor of <em>Harper’s Magazine</em> and executive editor of <em>GQ</em>, where he worked on stories that won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN Literary Award for Journalism, and multiple National Magazine Awards. His book <em>The Deadline Effect</em> is out in paperback now. <strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>•&nbsp;Book: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Deadline-Effect-Work-Minute_Before-Minute/dp/1982132272?tag=petemo-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Deadline Effect: Inside Elite Organizations That Have Mastered the Ticking Clock</em></a><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p>•&nbsp;Website: <a href="https://www.deadline-effect.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Deadline-Effect.com</a><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —&nbsp;</strong></p><p>•&nbsp;Research: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0001839217750856" rel=