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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

052: Mind Management for Productivity with David Kadavy (Host of the Love Your Work podcast)

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Author and fellow podcaster David Kadavy discusses how to train yourself to get into and maintain a productive mindset. You’ll learn: Powerful rituals for powerful productivity A handy set of categories to zero in on ideal mind states Approaches for quickly shifting your mind state About David David Kadavy is author of the #18 Amazon best-selling book, Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty and the host of the Love Your Work podcast. Prior to writing Design for Hackers, David founded the Design departments at two Silicon Valley startups, and freelanced for clients such as oDesk, PBworks, and UserVoice. David also launched numerous other projects on his own, none of which failed hard enough to be worthy of mention here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hey, once again, we have a fantastic guest. It's a new friend I met in Chicago at

0:27.1

Podcast Movement. His name is David Kedavi and he's got so much wise thoughtful

0:32.0

perspective.

0:32.6

I've been loving his podcast called Love Your Work.

0:36.1

And we got to record this one actually in person in Chicago as he was living here, but

0:41.0

now he has since moved to Columbia. So I will miss David

0:44.4

but Columbia will be enriched by him and I think you will be enriched by him as

0:48.6

well because you're going to learn one powerful rituals for powerful productivity to a handy set of

0:55.5

categories to zero in on ideal mind states and three approaches for quickly shifting

1:01.2

your mind state when that's necessary.

1:03.4

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript,

1:05.8

the links to things mentioned,

1:07.0

you'll find that over at awesome at your job.

1:08.8

com slash epp 52.

1:11.6

Here's a bit about David. David Cadavi is the author of the number 18

1:16.2

Amazon best-selling book, Design for Hackers, reverse engineering beauty, and is the

1:20.8

host of the Love Your Work podcast.

1:23.0

Prior to writing, design for hackers,

1:25.0

David founded the design departments

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