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The most productive thing in your calendar might be the space you leave empty.
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Empty time rarely looks impressive on a calendar. It has no deliverable to announce. Yet it is often where you notice the question you have been answering incorrectly, or have a conversation that does not end when the next alert rings.

Not every open hour needs to produce insight to justify itself. If you immediately give it a purpose, you may rebuild the pressure you meant to remove. Protect some space because you want a day with room in it, even if nothing remarkable happens there.

Can you leave an hour open without deciding what it must give back?

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