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1:48 The writer who inspired Dan the most when he was growing up.

2:30 “As a kid, I spent a lot of time in libraries and being in libraries gave me the sense that the world was far bigger than the town I grew up in.”

2:43 “The institution of a public library shaped me more than anything else?”

3:13 “I want to do something that I’m curious about.”

4:29 “There have been times when I’ve written a book proposal only to discover that I don’t want to write the book.”

5:16 How Dan came to write the book When.

6:14 “There were all these things that I had in my own work and life that I was approaching in a very sloppy guesswork, patchwork way, and I found that frustrating.”

7:49 Why going to the doctor’s office in the afternoon is more dangerous than going in the morning.”

8:31 “Our brain power does not stay static over the course of the day.”

8:46 “The best time to do something depends on what it is you are doing.”

9:15 The best times of day to exercise according to the goals of the exerciser.

11:12 The Fresh Start Effect: “There are certain dates of the year that researchers call temporal landmarks, they stand out in time the way landmarks stand out in space.”

12:01 “We relegate our imperfect selves to the past, and open up a fresh ledger on our new and better selves.”

13:18 “Time of day accounts for 20% of the variance regarding how people perform on brain-oriented workplace tasks.”

14:53 “Most of us move through the day in three stages: a peak, a trough, a recovery.”

15:24 The best time of day for analytic work is during our peak, for insight work is during our recovery period, and the trough time is better for the administrative stuff.

16:27 The perfect way to plan and implement a hiring process according the time of day.

19:03 How to take morning people and night owls into account when it comes to time-based directive.

20:54 Why structured interview processes are far better than unstructured processes.

23:01 “Diurnal processes are pretty ferocious opponents.”

23:44 “We’ve gotten breaks largely wrong in America.”

24:36 “We need to think of breaks as part of our performance and not a deviation from our performance. Professionals take breaks, amateurs don’t take breaks.”

25:39 “The highest performers take more breaks.”

27:15 “The most effective naps are very short naps: 10-15 minutes tops.”

28:58 The Lightning Round