284: Boosting Your Work with Mindfulness Practices with Dr. Leah Weiss
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 8 April 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Stanford instructor Dr. Leah Weiss discusses how mindfulness training can translate to tangible results in the workplace.
You’ll Learn:
1) How to practice the intentional use of your attention
2) Pro tips for taking productive breaks
3) Handy tools for setting your personal purpose
About Leah
Leah Weiss, PhD, is a researcher, professor, consultant, and author. She teaches courses on compassionate leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is principal teacher and founding faculty for Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. She also directs Compassion Education and Scholarship at HopeLab, an Omidyar Group research and development nonprofit focused on resilience. She lives in Palo Alto, California with her husband and three children.
Items Mentioned in this Show:
- Leah’s website: LeahWeissPhd.com
- Leah’s book: How We Work
- Prior episode: 044: Calming the Voice Inside Your Head with Dan Harris
- Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Book: The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
- Book: This is Water by David Foster Wallace
- Technique: Pomodoro
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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 fund, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining is here for episode 284 with Dr. |
| 0:25.2 | Lea Weiss. |
| 0:26.4 | Leah has loads of wisdom when it comes to mindfulness and how it makes a real difference |
| 0:31.4 | in your work, |
| 0:32.6 | haven't had some interactions with the Dalai Lama |
| 0:35.3 | and taught it at Stanford, |
| 0:36.8 | so you'll learn one, how to practice |
| 0:39.5 | the intentional use of your attention. |
| 0:42.0 | Two, pro-tips for taking productive breaks, and three, handy tools for |
| 0:46.7 | sitting your personal purpose. |
| 0:48.8 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've |
| 0:51.6 | referenced, it's over at awesome at your job. Com slash Epp. or the |
| 0:53.4 | transcript or the links to items that we've referenced. It's over to awesome at your job. |
| 0:54.0 | Com slash Epp 284. |
| 0:56.0 | And we got a new handy tool for you if you are in the least bit pondering |
| 1:00.7 | whether you should remain in your job or if they get to the future, we got a real nifty |
| 1:05.5 | tool that's an assessment and you can answer some items and then behold you get your |
| 1:10.2 | snazzy personalized customized report that tells which elements of a job most drive happiness |
| 1:17.7 | for you. You can get that by texting profile to 3.45, 3.45, and I want to hear what you think. I hope you love it. |
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