#442 Ask the expert: Pausing

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Sarah is joined by author and expert Robert Poynton to explore the often-overlooked skill of pausing. Drawing from his book Do Pause, Robert shares insights on how introducing intentional pauses into your day can improve performance, sustain creativity, and help you thrive in your squiggly career.

Together, they discuss:

The barriers that stop us from pausing

How to think of pausing as a “plastic concept” that adapts to your needs

Practical tips to fit pauses into the spaces between work and life.

This episode will inspire you to rethink your relationship with time and consider how small pauses could make a big impact.

To learn more about Robert and his work, visit www.robertpoynton.com.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Today is one of our Ask the Expert episodes
0:09.1	and you're going to hear me in conversation with Robert Pointon, who is the author of a book called Do Pause.
0:15.9	Together we're going to be talking about how punctuating your days with very short pauses and thinking really
0:22.3	practically about what it means to create some space can actually increase our performance
0:28.4	and improve our impact and our sustainability. In our squiggly careers where we know we're
0:35.1	going to be working for longer and we want to keep going and keep growing, I think pausing is a really important part of that.
0:43.9	It's actually something I really care about and care about being able to do it in a way that works for everyone.
0:50.0	Whether you're someone who has to commute a lot, whether you're someone who is working at home,
0:55.3	how do we make sure that we create a way of working that means it sort of works for you and
1:01.3	works for your work as well. So Robert is brilliant. He's really insightful, full of useful ideas.
1:08.3	He's definitely practiced what he's preached as well as sharing his words
1:11.8	of wisdom with us as well. So I hope you enjoy the conversation and I hope it prompts you to think
1:16.9	about maybe how pausing could work in your day. And maybe it's something you even want to think
1:22.3	about as we head into 2025 and we start to set some learning goals for next year. So I'll be back at the end to say bye,
1:28.9	but for now, hope you enjoy the conversation. Rob, welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast.
1:38.8	I'm really looking forward to our conversation together today. Me too, Sarah. Thanks very much
1:42.4	for having me. So we're talking about pausing today.
1:46.1	And I wanted to start with what gets in the way. From your work with people and from sharing your
1:52.2	book with people all across the world, we were talking about how actually it's been translated into
1:56.0	different countries, into different cultures. What stops us from pausing most commonly do you observe?
2:02.4	Well, the easy answer to that is the kind of everyday insistence of daily life
2:06.6	and the sort of cheap answer, if you like, is technology.
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