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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

420: How to Break Free from Distracting Devices with Brian Solis

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Brian Solis interlinks procrastination, distraction, and device-related addiction to show how they rob us of productivity and happiness.   You'll Learn: The biochemical forces that rewire your brain when exposed to social media The key thing you must do  to reclaim your attention Why devices are often thieves of our own happiness   About Brian: Brian Solis is Principal Analyst and futurist at Altimeter, a Prophet Company, a keynote speaker and best-selling author. Brian studies disruptive technology and its impact on business and society. In his reports, articles and books, he humanizes technology and its impact on business and society to help executives gain new perspectives and insights. Brian’s research explores digital transformation, customer experience and culture 2.0 and "the future of" industries, trends and behavior.   View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep420 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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 fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello, thanks so much for joining us here for episode 420.

0:22.0

420 is an apt name because that makes me think of for episode 420. 420.

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420 is an apt name because that makes me think of marijuana and drugs in addiction.

0:28.0

And we're talking about device addiction.

0:30.0

Too many segues in that leak, baby.

0:32.0

We got Brian Solis. he's got a wealth of research

0:34.8

and insight into this stuff so you'll learn one the biochemical forces that rewire your

0:39.1

brain when exposed to social media to the key thing you must do to reclaim your power of attention and three, why

0:45.6

devices are often thieves of our own happiness. If you want to check out the show notes or the

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transcript or the links to as we've referenced, and so over to also at all cement your job.com

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slash F 420. And what at awesome at your job

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dot com, I hope you'll check out some of our cool stuff.

0:58.8

Not that I'm trying to manipulate and control your attention in order to

1:01.9

to monetize it for as much as possible like a nefarious force that Brian talks about but I just think you'll find some helpful stuff including links to all the

1:15.0

drop down under the podcast menu bar which will give you links to the favorite episodes and every episode tagged by topic and competency covered and the capacity to full text search all

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420 episodes that's much of the reason why we do the transcription so great stuff

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over to awesome at your job.com in addition to these particular show notes now here's

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Brian Solis is principal analyst and futurist at Altimeter, a profit company, a keynote speaker, and a best-selling author.

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Brian studies disruptive technology and his

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