576: How to Defeat Distraction and Build Greater Mental Resilience through Mindfulness with Rasmus Hougaard
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Rasmus Hougaard discusses how to manage your attention by practicing mindfulness.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why we get distracted by the news—and how to curb that impulse
2) The quantifiable benefits of mindfulness
3) The small habits that build great resilience
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— ABOUT RASMUS —
Rasmus Hougaard is the Founder and CEO of Potential Project - the global leader in building mindful leaders and organizations by enhancing performance, innovation and resilience through mindfulness. He is the author of One Second Ahead as well as The Mind of the Leader, a bestseller published by Harvard Business Review. In addition, he writes for Harvard Business Review and Forbes and lectures at the world’s leading business and executive education schools.
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• Rasmus’ article: “Build Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis”
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• Rasmus’ LinkedIn: Rasmus Hougaard
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• Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
• Book: The Principles of Psychology, Vol.1 by William James
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | 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. |
| 0:16.4 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 576 with Erasmus Hoogard. |
| 0:24.4 | Erasmus is one of the world's leading authorities on how you can beat distraction |
| 0:29.1 | and get better mental resilience going through mindfulness. You'll learn one, why we get distracted |
| 0:35.2 | by the news and how to curb the impulse, two, the quantifiable benefits of mindfulness, and |
| 0:40.1 | three, the small habits that build great resilience. |
| 0:43.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 0:45.9 | as we've referenced, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 576, |
| 0:51.4 | and you can access those goodies that way. |
| 0:54.0 | Now here's Erasmus Whogard is the founder and CEO of Potential Project, |
| 0:59.0 | the global leader in bestseller published by Harvard Business Review. In addition, he writes for Harvard Business and |
| 1:13.4 | Review in Forbes and lectures at the world's leading business |
| 1:16.3 | and executive education schools. |
| 1:18.0 | Big thanks to Rasmus for sharing his wisdom with us, |
| 1:20.0 | and big thanks to our sponsors, check them out. |
| 1:24.8 | Here is Rasmus. |
| 1:28.8 | Rasmus, thanks for joining us here on the How to Be All Smet Your Job Podcast. Pete, thank you very much. |
| 1:30.3 | Yes, my pleasure to be here. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, I'm intrigued. |
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