1112: How to Beat Digital Exhaustion and Reclaim Your Energy with Paul Leonardi

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Paul Leonardi reveals how notifications, multitasking, and endless tools quietly burn us out–and how you can reset your energy.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The two hidden forces behind your digital exhaustion

2) Simple ways to reduce attention-switching

3) How to reclaim your energy from your devices

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— ABOUT PAUL —

Paul Leonardi, PhD, is the award-winning Duca Family Professor of Technology Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a frequent consultant and speaker to a wide range of tech and non-tech companies like Google, Microsoft, YouTube, GM, McKinsey, and Fidelity, helping them to take advantage of new technologies while defeating digital exhaustion. He is a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and coauthor of The Digital Mindset.

• Book: Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life

• LinkedIn: Paul Leonardi

• Faculty Profile: Paul Leonardi

• Website: PaulLeonardi.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “When Choice is Demotivating: Can One Desire Too Much of a Good Thing?” by Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper

• Book: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

• Book: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

• Past episode: 832: How to Restore Yourself from Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach

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0:00.0	Technology is not the problem.
0:11.4	It's how we use it, how we orient to it.
0:14.3	That really is.
0:16.6	But our devices are demanding more and more switches and attention from us all the time
0:22.8	across different applications, across different areas of work, across different arenas of
0:27.9	our life, right, from work to home and etc.
0:31.0	And we're just not made for those rapid switches in connection and disconnection that technologies create for us.
0:39.0	That's Dr. Paul Leonardi.
0:51.3	He's an award-winning professor of technology management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
0:55.9	He specializes in helping organizations take advantage of new technologies while defeating digital exhaustion.
1:01.4	His new book, Digital Exhaustion, Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life,
1:05.1	shares strategies on how to transform your relationship with your devices and build stronger connections,
1:10.3	both in and out of the digital world.
1:12.5	So you'll learn one, the two hidden forces behind your digital exhaustion, two, simple ways to reduce attention switching,
1:18.8	and three, how to reclaim your energy from your devices.
1:22.3	I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at your job. And now, here's Paul.
1:30.6	Paul, welcome.
1:31.9	Hi, thanks for having me, Pete.
1:32.8	I appreciate it.
1:33.6	Well, I'm excited to be chatting.
1:35.0	We're talking digital exhaustion.
1:36.9	But first, I want to know, I understand you are the youngest black belt in U.S.
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