#017 - Dr Euan Lawson - Your Desk Is Killing You; How To Reduce Workplace Pain And Become More Productive
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Dr Euan Lawson is a General Practitioner and author of The Healthy Writer.
Lots of us sit at desks for a significant proportion of our lives, but a typical work station is severely unhealthy for body and mind. Expect to learn how to optimise your work station to reduce physical strain, fight RSI, improve sleep, turbo charge productivity and benefit your mood. This one is an absolute belter packed with amazing advice from Dr Lawson, get your pen & paper out!
Extra Stuff:
Follow Dr Lawson online - http://www.blokeology.io/
Buy The Healthy Writer - https://amzn.to/2LHkf1U
Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom
-
Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello. This week is an absolute belter. This genuinely could be the best podcast |
| 0:07.3 | that I've done so far. Really, really happy with it. Dr. Ewan Lawson is my guest. He is |
| 0:13.4 | the author of The Healthy Writer, also a general practitioner of medicine in the UK. And the |
| 0:19.0 | host of the Blow College podcast, check it out on iTunes, Stitcher, all those good places. |
| 0:26.8 | And today we are talking about what it's like working at a desk. So very, very high |
| 0:33.0 | proportion of people will spend at least a significant period of their week sat down working |
| 0:39.0 | at a desk looking at a screen. What we try to go through today is with the help of Dr. |
| 0:44.4 | Lawson's expertise is to break down exactly what is good and bad practice when it comes |
| 0:52.5 | to designing your workstation. So we're talking from seating posture, height of screen, |
| 0:59.7 | cranial angle, looking down, angle for your wrists, what you can do about reducing RSI, |
| 1:05.7 | what you can do about reducing stress on your eyes, improving your sleep, your work rhythms, |
| 1:13.9 | how you can use some productivity tools and some productivity hacks to batch together |
| 1:19.1 | your work into windows so that you're always accountable to yourself and so that you can |
| 1:23.4 | improve your productivity. We go into journaling, we go into the health effects of sitting, |
| 1:29.3 | have been sedentary. This really is absolutely jam packed and I'm incredibly happy with it. |
| 1:37.5 | Also, I have to say, the Long awaited Love Island podcast is now available and it will be a |
| 1:44.4 | YouTube exclusive for the foreseeable future. So if you wanted to hear what it's really like |
| 1:50.4 | living on Love Island with me, Johnny and Yusuf, you have to go online. Head to YouTube and search |
| 1:56.8 | Modern Wisdom podcast. It will come up. The response has been fantastic. We've broken through, |
| 2:03.0 | I think, 3k views maybe already, really, really happy with. I've had loads of messages about it. |
| 2:09.0 | So make sure that you head online. If you love the podcast on audio, every episode will be made |
| 2:15.2 | available on YouTube as well now and I'm going to be uploading video files for all of the old ones |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Chris Williamson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Chris Williamson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.