Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 15 hours 10 minutes
Forget about other people’s rules. Why working from personal principles is the best approach to productivity.
Sebene Selassie on confronting your inner critic, finding emotional clarity, and asking: “What am I not willing to feel?”
How acknowledging that transformation is slow and subtle — not dramatic and overnight! — will help you be kinder to yourself.
Scott Barry Kaufman on the benefits of quieting your ego and how having more faith in humanity leads to greater faith in yourself.
Debbie Millman on the challenges of being an over-achiever, synthesizing your success too quickly, and making a 10-year plan.
How the desire to be “productive” metastasizes into a toxic form of work shame that makes you feel like you’re never doing enough.
Artist Jenny Odell on the power of actions that can’t be optimized and withholding your attention as an act of resistance.
Journalist Rob Walker on attention, originality, and why noticing the things other people are missing is essential to the creative process.