562: How to Get More Done by Working Less with Alex Pang

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🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pang discusses how to significantly boost your productivity while working fewer hours.

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) How working fewer hours greatly increases productivity.

2) Small productivity hacks that save a massive amount of time.

3) When you should and shouldn’t multitask.

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— ABOUT ALEX —

Alex Pang is the founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten workdays, while staying focused and productive. He is the author of 4 books and have been featured in publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, and the New Yorker.

Pang is also an international speaker and has led workshops across the globe on the future of work and how deliberate rest makes creative careers more productive and sustainable. He received his B.A. and Ph.D in History of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

• Alex’s book: Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less— Here's How

• Alex’s book: Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less

• Alex’s website: www.Strategy.rest

• Alex’s Instagram: @askpang

• Alex’s Twitter: @askpang

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Scrivener

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

• Book: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Past episode: 466: How to Get Home Earlier by Automating (Some of) Your Work with Wade Foster

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Transcript

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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 McChitis.
0:19.2	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 562
0:21.8	with Alex Pang.
0:23.0	Hope you're doing well and hanging in there.
0:25.0	You're still remote working likely.
0:27.0	Well, I also have some pro tips on how you can continue
0:30.0	getting more done by working less.
0:32.0	He's drawing from examples of companies
0:33.7	that I've managed to shift to four day work weeks and other situations. So great
0:38.2	stuff. You'll learn one, how working fewer hours can actually greatly increase
0:42.1	productivity.
0:43.0	Two, small productivity hacks that can save a massive amount of time.
0:47.5	And three, when you should and should not multitask.
0:50.5	So if you want to check out the show down, or the transcript, links to items we've referenced expand your episode show notes or description in our
0:55.5	podcast app of choice or visit awesome at your job.com slash app 562. Now here's
1:02.3	Alex's story.
1:03.2	Alex's story. Alex Pang is the founder of Strategy and Rest, a consultancy devoted to helping companies
1:08.0	and individuals harness the power of rest to shorten work days while staying
1:11.7	focused and productive.
1:12.8	He's the author of four books and has been featured in publications such as the New York Times,
	...

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