diff --git a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst
index c2e2f7f820f4ef..ec56a361b89a51 100644
--- a/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/concurrent.futures.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ Executor Objects
          with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as executor:
              future = executor.submit(pow, 323, 1235)
              print(future.result())
-
+             # Note: calling future.result() outside this with statement would work fine,
+             # but calling it here is safe because we print it immediately and the executor
+             # can complete the task before the context manager exits.
    .. method:: map(fn, *iterables, timeout=None, chunksize=1, buffersize=None)
 
       Similar to :func:`map(fn, *iterables) <map>` except:
@@ -151,8 +153,10 @@ And::
        print(f.result())
 
    executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=1)
-   executor.submit(wait_on_future)
-
+   executor.submit(wait_on_future).result()
+   # Note: calling future.result() here would cause a deadlock because the single
+   # worker thread is already executing wait_on_future(), which itself is waiting
+   # for a result from the same executor.
 
 .. class:: ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=None, thread_name_prefix='', initializer=None, initargs=())