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Strategies for When You’re Overwhelmed with Brigid Schulte
Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. Brigid is a regular contributor to the She The People blog and has written for Style, Outlook, and other outlets. She writes about work-life issues and poverty, seeking to understand what it takes to live a good life across race, class, and gender. Her recent book is called “Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time“.
In this episode, Eric and Brigid discuss the common struggles and strategies for dealing with being overwhelmed.
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Brigid Schulte and I Discuss Strategies for When You’re Overwhelmed and…
- Her book, Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
- Defining “The Overwhelm”
- How our perception of time and stress negatively affect the brain
- The internal and external pressures to do too much.
- The history of leisure and idleness and how it is now
- The two qualities of leisure: choosing the activity and having control of your time
- Contaminated time is when you’re caught up in your thoughts
- Mindfulness as a powerful tool to deal with overwhelm
- The challenges and learning to handle ambiguity
- Broadening our perspective when managing time
- The importance of planning the most important tasks in our life first
- Pulsing is the practice of managing work cycles
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Deconstructing Yourself with Michael Taft
Time Management for Mortals with Oliver Burkeman
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Make Time for What Matters with John Zeratsky
John Zeratsky was a designer in the tech industry and became obsessed with the idea of re-designing time. He’s also the author of multiple books and his work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and many others.
In this episode, Eric and John discuss his book, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
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John Zeratsky and I Discuss How to Make Time for What Matters and…
- His book, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
- Understanding the limits of will-power
- Setting up our environment so it’s easier to make the right decisions
- The two powerful forces that compete every day for our time
- “The Busy Bandwagon” and the feeling you’re not in control of our time
- “The Infinity Pools” of neverending options of distractions
- Questioning the “defaults” in our lives and finding ways to change our behavior
- Creating a highlight for everyday
- Structuring your day around your “highlight”
- Finding more meaningful moments
- Taking back control of your time and energy
- Creating barriers to distraction
- The fundamentals of managing your energy
- The importance of focusing on the process, not the outcome
- Becoming aware of how our interaction with technology makes us feel
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