Comments on: Tis the Season…to Conduct a Ruthless Project Purge http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/tis-the-seasonto-conduct-a-ruthless-project-purge/ Decoding Patterns of Success Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aron Standley http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/tis-the-seasonto-conduct-a-ruthless-project-purge/#comment-25889 Aron Standley Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:09:21 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=219#comment-25889 I like the simplicity of the purge's structure, and how it commits a person to the best results ever with no excuses. I am curious about your thoughts in applying this to an auto-didactic's schedule, where the structure of the school schedule exists where the student creates it. Vacations exist in this person's world, so the ability to reset a schedule exists as well. I'm curious, however, about how you set the scope of your few, important projects to pre-prepare for the next project purge. Do you set a general date to check in and reset again, to prevent projects (whose scope you set) overshooting their due dates? How do you relate the times of purges with the due dates of projects? Thanks for the articles - they've been helpful in my practice & studying. I like the simplicity of the purge’s structure, and how it commits a person to the best results ever with no excuses.

I am curious about your thoughts in applying this to an auto-didactic’s schedule, where the structure of the school schedule exists where the student creates it.
Vacations exist in this person’s world, so the ability to reset a schedule exists as well.

I’m curious, however, about how you set the scope of your few, important projects to pre-prepare for the next project purge.
Do you set a general date to check in and reset again, to prevent projects (whose scope you set) overshooting their due dates?
How do you relate the times of purges with the due dates of projects?

Thanks for the articles – they’ve been helpful in my practice & studying.

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]]> By: Niek http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/12/21/tis-the-seasonto-conduct-a-ruthless-project-purge/#comment-2116 Niek Tue, 25 Dec 2007 23:59:02 +0000 http://calnewport.com/blog/?p=219#comment-2116 (Dutch student) Implicitly.. I came to the same conclusion that I cannot continue in my self-made-17-square-meter-library I live in and need to FOCUS, so IDENTIFY on WHAT to do.. (And therefore have to get rid of the rest) Your post is a welcome medium for starting this.. Thanks! (Dutch student) Implicitly.. I came to the same conclusion that I cannot continue in my self-made-17-square-meter-library I live in and need to FOCUS, so IDENTIFY on WHAT to do.. (And therefore have to get rid of the rest) Your post is a welcome medium for starting this.. Thanks!

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