Editor’s note: I often wish there were more hours in the day, but that’s not going to happen anytime soon, so I turned to Google’s resident productivity expert Laura Mae Martin for help. In the conversation below—our latest installment of More on how to minimize distraction during your power hours
On our to-do list: an interview with Google’s productivity expert
Earlier this year, hundreds of Googlers joined you in a “read a book a week” challenge for 12 weeks. What did you learn from reading 3,327 pages about productivity?
People who craft their time intentionally and give it their full attention end up where they want to be in the long term.
Is your personal life as organized as your professional life?
Because I spend so much mental energy staying productive at work, I try to have more spontaneity in my personal life. Right now I’m doing “No-plans November,” when I don’t make any weekend plans until the morning of. To me, that’s work-life balance: not flexing the same muscles at home and at work.
