Parrish schedules three-hour podcast interviews to eliminate time pressure
Shane Parrish · Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm · Jan 10, 2023 · at 1:01:14
Shane Parrish, host of The Knowledge Project, explains his podcast recording workflow and time management strategy to guest Jack Kornfield.
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“One of the reasons that we book three hours is because then there's no time pressure. There's no, you're not thinking about, oh, I only have an hour. I got to fit all this in. And so it's just, I am here in this moment for this length of time. And it all, it never goes three hours, or very rarely, but I find that that frees me to be more focused in the moment, where if it's an hour, it actually is detrimental to me being in that moment and being present.”
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