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Could “When” Be Better Than “How”?

Get your timing right with these few techniques

Mathias Barra
5 min readAug 3, 2019

Like most people, I’ve spent a large part of my life thinking about time and the lack of it. The most common aspect put forward has always been “make the best of it”.

If we don’t have much time, then we should use what we have and make it worthwhile after all, right?

This means we’ve been asking “How” constantly.

However, Daniel H. Pink, in his book “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing”, has a different take on that.

He did some extensive research into where the matter of timing is important and how to make use of that component in our daily lives and I found there are incredible takeaways in there.

Here are a few ways on how to make use of timing instead of simply time.

Find Your Personal Patterns

We’ve all heard waking up early is the best solution for success in life. After all, most successful people do wake up early, don’t they?

Despite being well aware that we have different DNA and have grown in very various ways in life, we tend to believe the timing of efficiency stays the same between everybody.

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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