617: Enhancing Your Productivity by Managing Your Mental Energy with David Kadavy
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
David Kadavy explains how to harness your mental energy to improve your productivity.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How our obsession with time management hurts us
2) Three questions to ask to get more work done
3) How to easily shift to the optimal mental state for work
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— ABOUT DAVID —
David Kadavy is a bestselling author, blogger, podcaster, and speaker. Through his blogging at kadavy.net and his podcast, Love Your Work, he helps people find satisfaction through following their crafts, even if it takes them down unconventional paths. David's writing has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Inc.com, The Huffington Post, McSweeny's Internet Tendency, and Upworthy. He has spoken in eight countries, including appearances at SXSW at TEDx. He lives in Medellín, Colombia.
• David’s book: Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters
• David’s book: The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating & Start Creating
• David’s Twitter: @kadavy
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• Previous episode: 052: Mind Management for Productivity with David Kadavy
• Previous episode: 063: The Optimal Time For Everything with Dr. Michael Breus
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.1 | With your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 617 with David Cattavi. |
| 0:23.3 | We had David on the show, wow, over 500 episodes ago, and he has sharpened and honed and refined |
| 0:29.9 | his goods all the more. |
| 0:32.4 | So if you'd like to have more productivity, but you find yourself tuckered out, exhausted |
| 0:38.0 | overwhelmed too much, well, he's got some pro tips on how to manage your mind instead |
| 0:44.4 | of your time to get that stuff done all the better. |
| 0:46.8 | So you'll learn one, how our obsession with time management hurts us, two, three questions |
| 0:50.9 | to ask to get more work done, and three, how to easily shift to the optimal mental state |
| 0:56.0 | for the work required. |
| 0:57.2 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to albums, we |
| 0:59.9 | reference do drop on by awesome at your job.com slash ep617 that has got the goods there. |
| 1:07.2 | And by the way, the transcripts have had a few questions on this. |
| 1:09.7 | There is a little horizontal bar you click on the post. |
| 1:15.4 | You'll see the image of David with a quote. |
| 1:18.2 | You'll see the teasers of the you'll learn one, two, three. |
| 1:21.7 | You'll see some handy links and then underneath that is where you'll find the transcript. |
| 1:27.0 | So it's deliberately somewhat hidden so that you can click to expand it because it's |
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