Last spring and summer I instituted “my time”.\u00a0 I started scheduling off 3hr blocks of time 2-3 times a week on my calendar for research.\u00a0 This happened around the time that I started making my calendar available so students would know when to find me.\u00a0 (It has made scheduling meetings very easy.)\u00a0 But I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t interrupted arbitrarily.\u00a0 I treat these blocks of time like any scheduled meeting.\u00a0 They are precious.\u00a0 I will only cancel one or intrude on one for very important things (such as working with collaborators on research or attending a graduate exam).<\/p>\n
My productivity went up, I found.\u00a0 I knew I could rely on a decent chunk of time regularly.\u00a0 Before, I had found myself with useless one hour blocks squeezed between meetings – not enough time for me to think seriously about a problem.<\/p>\n
For some reason I stopped in the fall.\u00a0 I probably just forgot to reschedule the time for the quarter, with new committee and teaching schedules to work around.\u00a0 Last week, I was reminded about the importance of uninterrupted time for the creative process from John Cleese’s surprisingly relevant-to-research speech on creativity, posted by Luca<\/a>.\u00a0 So, “my time” is reinstated.<\/p>\n Of course, that’s no excuse to waste precious minutes of “my time” writing this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last spring and summer I instituted “my time”.\u00a0 I started scheduling off 3hr blocks of time 2-3 times a week on my calendar for research.\u00a0 This happened around the time that I started making my calendar available so students would know when to find me.\u00a0 (It has made scheduling meetings very easy.)\u00a0 But I wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[831,523],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}