A Time to Think: Circadian Rhythms in Human Cognition
A Time to Think: Circadian Rhythms in Human Cognition is a journal article by Christina Schmidt, Fabienne Collette, Christian Cajochen, Philippe Peigneux (2007), published in Cognitive Neuropsychology. IX Coach's practice library cites it in 5 practices across 4 concepts; each one is listed below, so you can see exactly where this journal article is put to use.
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Practices on IX Coach that cite A Time to Think
- Front-load deep work in the morning
Do your most cognitively demanding work in the first 3–4 hours of the day, then protect the rest as recovery.
Deliberate Rest
- Protect mornings for deep work — no internal meetings before noon
Morning is when cognitive capacity is highest for most people; spending it on reactive coordination is a predictable waste.
Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson)
- Do the hardest task first
Tackle your single most important, most-dreaded task before anything else in the day.
Eat That Frog, Made Practical
- Protect at least one 2–4 hour deep work block daily
Reserve one uninterrupted block per day for your most cognitively demanding priority — at the same time each day.
Ideal Week Design
- Map tasks to energy levels throughout the day
Assign high-cognitive tasks to high-energy periods and low-cognitive tasks to low-energy ones.
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