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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 418 with Rahaf Harfush. I think this episode could very well be a

game changer for many of us. I totally included in that because we're talking not so much

about a lot of the key things that you should do in order to

regenerate or take care of yourself but rather why we don't do them and what's going on with our

relationship to work hustling productivity or self-worth and all that stuff. It's a fascinating journey which

provokes some great reflection. You may well want to listen to this one a couple of

times. You'll learn one how productivity and creativity are incompatible,

two, the reverberating negative impact of the 2008 recession on how we work today and

three best practices for optimizing your limited reserve of creative energy.

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript of the links to items we referenced,

is it awesome at your job.com slash F-418.

And here's Rahoff's story.

She's a digital anthropologist, best-selling author, and

speaker researching the impacts of emerging technologies on our society. She focuses on understanding

the deep and often hidden behavioral shifts that are taking place within organizations and individuals as global digital infrastructure

enable the unprecedented exchange of ideas, information, and opinions.

She teaches innovation and disruptive business models at Science Pose, Masters of Finance and

Economics program in Paris.

She's worked at organizations including Starwood Capital Group, Deutsche Bank, Este Lauder,

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