Hi, you'll listen to the Squiggly Careers podcast and I'm Helen, one of your hosts. Today I'm not going to be joined by Sarah. Instead, I'm going to be talking to Sophie Devonshire and Ben Renshaw all about how you can find your focus and love your work. Their new book, Love Work, is a really brilliant, practical read. There's lots in that. I love the bit around

values because values is such a big part of what we do in our work with Amazing If. And so I loved

reading the book. I took a lot away from it. And this conversation was an opportunity for me to

talk and dive a bit deeper into the book and share it with you, but really to help you find your focus on

the work that you love so that you can be at your best. So I think anything that we can do

to find focus with the work that we do and love it as much as possible, accepting that there's

always good days and bad days and highs and lows, but anything that we can do that is in our

control to help us to enjoy those days

as much as possible, I think is time well spent. And Sophie and Ben's work is really, really

useful to help us work out what that looks like for us. So I really hope you enjoy this conversation

as part of our Find Your Focus series of the conversations that Sarah had with Emma Gannon

on Disconnection and also Johan

Hary around focus and attention, also part of this series as well. But yeah, we'd love your

feedback on it, everybody. You can always email us. We're just Helen and Sarah at squiggly

careers.com. But now on to the conversation. So in terms of how we talk about this now, I thought we would take your 3D model, which

will become clear to everyone that is listening, and sort of break apart each stage, sort of dive

in into each of the D's and really help people to understand how they can find their focus

and the practical action they can take to love work.

And so for summary, maybe Ben, would you mind just summarising what the three Ds are and then

we'll dive into the first one?

Sure. No, love to, Helen. Thank you and really appreciate the contact.

I think before starting, Sophie and I, we actually resonate massively, you know, with your approach, in particular

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