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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

12: The Myth Of Work Life Balance

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2016

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Work life balance is a myth. On this week's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about why it's time to stop fighting work/life balance and instead, focus on prioritizing the right things. This episode was inspired by a post that David wrote titled: How-to Be Happier: Avoid Work/Life Balance https://medium.com/life-learning/your-priorities-bcbbb7e49287#.llbq5lu8v Catchup on all of the previous episodes at www.seekingwisdom.io/ Follow us on Twitter: @dcancel, @davegerhardt and @seekingwisdomio

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0:00.0

What up, what up, what up, what up?

0:08.7

On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about one of our favorite topics, work-life balance, and the myth of work-life balance.

0:19.4

Shit don't exist.

0:31.5

Yeah. and the myth of work-life balance. Shit don't exist. All right, so we're going to talk about work-life balance, something that I bet everybody

0:34.4

listening has thought about, thinks about, talks about.

0:38.5

And, you know, especially today, it's harder than ever, right?

0:40.6

We have Slack, we have email, we have jobs that it doesn't matter if we're in the office.

0:44.5

We can always work at different times.

0:48.1

But we want to change the way that you think about work-life balance because you said

0:52.5

it doesn't exist.

0:53.3

It's not a real thing.

0:54.3

It doesn't exist. I think it a real thing. It doesn't exist.

0:55.1

I think it's the myth that everyone always chases.

0:58.1

It's the unicorn that we want but doesn't exist.

1:02.2

So the first thing when talking about work-life balance is to just maybe this is like a Stephen

1:07.7

Covey thing where you change your paradigm, right?

1:10.0

It's change the map of what work-life balance is, first of all.

1:15.1

And so I think maybe if you first understand that it's impossible, that'll change the perspective.

1:19.7

Yeah, and especially if you read Medium these days, I think this is where everyone writes about work-life balance on the daily.

1:26.7

You see that I think the paradigm shift for me and that is thinking about it at the macro

1:34.4

level.

1:35.0

So take it up a level, take it up many levels, and then work-life balance kind of makes sense

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