496: How to Break The Habit of Distraction with Maura Nevel Thomas

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Maura Nevel Thomas discusses how to take back control of your attention for more productive work days.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How we sabotage our performance every 3 minutes.

2) The simple trick to stopping most office distractions.

3) How to get more satisfaction out of work.

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— ABOUT MAURA —

Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of three books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker in Inc. Magazine. Maura is a contributing expert to major business outlets including Forbes, Fast Company, Huffington Post, and the Harvard Business Review.

• Book: Attention Management: How to Create Success and Gain Productivity—Every Day

• Website: MauraThomas.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress” by Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine

• Study: “Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity” by Adrian F. Ward et al., University of Texas

• Book: The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile

• Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport

• Book: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport

— THANK YOU, SPONSORS! —

• Simple Habit. This meditation app can help you gain greater control over distractions for faster learning. Visit SimpleHabit.com/Awesome get 30% off premium subscriptions.

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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 and thanks for joining us here for episode 496 with Mara Thomas.
0:23.0	Mara has done boat loads of research on managing your attention.
0:27.0	See all the one how we sabotage our performance every three-ish minutes,
0:31.0	two, the simple trick to stopping most office distractions
0:34.0	and three, how to get more satisfaction out of work.
0:37.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript
0:39.0	or the links to items we've referenced,
0:40.0	you'll find it on over at awesome at your job
0:42.0	dot com slash Fpp 496 now here's Mara's story Mara Neville Thomas is an
0:47.4	award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate
0:50.4	productivity and work life balance and the most widely cited authority on
0:54.8	attention management. She's a TEDx speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of three books and
0:59.8	was named a top leadership speaker in Inc magazine. Mara is a contributing expert to major business outlets,
1:05.4	including Forbes, Fast Company, Huffington Post,
1:07.8	and the Harvard Business Review.
1:09.4	Big thanks to Mora for sharing some time with us
1:11.6	and big thanks to our sponsors check them out.
1:14.7	Now here's Mara.
1:17.3	Mara thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your job podcast.
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