19.52: End of Year Reflections: Navigating Speedbumps

Writing Excuses

Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler

Fiction, Business, Careers

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re reflecting on 2024. Individually, all of us went through a lot throughout the year—we encountered myriad speed bumps that slowed us down in different ways.. How do you balance your workload with your own personal life and its needs? How can you help make navigating these speedbumps easier by knowing your own limits and needs? We give you specific questions you can ask yourself in order to locate your problem points and figure out how to rearrange your life (and your stories about your own life) in order to not over-exhaust yourself.

Thing of the Week: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Homework: Once a day for the next week, identify and write down something that is causing you pain. At the end of your week, look through your list and identify the one that is causing the most pain, and try to bulldoze it.

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Credits: Your hosts for this episode were Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, and Howard Tayler. It was produced by Emma Reynolds, recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson.

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0:52.1	Interview reflections, navigating speed bumps.
0:54.9	15 minutes long.
0:55.9	Because you're in a hurry.
0:57.3	And we're not that smart.
0:58.9	I'm Mary Robinette.
0:59.9	I'm Donglan.
1:00.6	I'm Aaron.
1:01.2	I'm Dan.
1:02.0	And I'm Howard.
1:03.6	And as the year comes to a close, we've been talking about a lot of things.
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