632: How to Reclaim 40 Hours Every Month (WITHOUT Multitasking!) with Dave Crenshaw
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dave Crenshaw shares hard-hitting research on the perils of multitasking—and how to improve your focus.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The right and the wrong way to “multitask”
2) Why we love to switch tasks—and how we can break that habit
3) How a 2% increase in productivity makes all the difference
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— ABOUT DAVE —
Dave Crenshaw develops productive leaders in Fortune 500 companies, universities, and organizations of every size. He has appeared in Time magazine, USA Today, FastCompany, and the BBC News. His courses on LinkedIn Learning have been viewed tens of millions of times. His five books have been published in eight languages, the most popular of which is The Myth of Multitasking—a time management bestseller. As an author, speaker, and online instructor, Dave has transformed the lives and careers of hundreds of thousands around the world.
• Dave’s book: The Myth of Multitasking, Second Edition: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done
• Dave’s book: The Power of Having Fun: How Meaningful Breaks Help You Get More Done
• Dave’s website: DaveCrenshaw.com
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• Documentary: The Social Dilemma
• Book: Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast the show where brilliant |
| 0:05.4 | professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at |
| 0:09.4 | work. Enjoy more career fun wins meaning and money with your host |
| 0:14.8 | Peek-Lakidas. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 632 we've got Dave |
| 0:23.7 | Khrinshaw back and he is talking about how to reclaim a whopping 40 40 hours |
| 0:30.9 | every month it's exciting stuff the time that is just hiding how to snag it so |
| 0:36.3 | you'll learn one the right and wrong way to multitask to why we love to switch |
| 0:41.4 | tasks and how you break that habit in three how a two percent increase in |
| 0:45.4 | productivity can in fact make all the difference so if you want to check out |
| 0:48.8 | the show notes or the transcript or the links to Allen's Beaver reference you'll |
| 0:51.6 | find them at awesome at your job.com slash f632 if you're listening to this |
| 0:56.4 | episode fresh in January 2021 it's totally add free as a way to say thank you |
| 1:02.3 | and welcome new listeners who like to show up in January I've noticed |
| 1:06.9 | historically so I'm going to give a one-minute rundown of some cool stuff |
| 1:11.8 | new listeners might want to know about or listeners you might skip ahead a minute |
| 1:15.7 | or hear a little refresher for cool stuff that we have and here's the |
| 1:20.0 | spiel one welcome I am delighted to have you here I recommend you check out |
| 1:24.2 | some of the very first episodes labeled episode zero start here and ABCDEF |
| 1:30.0 | which you can find quickly by either pushing subscribe in your podcast app |
| 1:33.7 | player or sorting old to new in order to get there quickly sometimes they hide |
| 1:39.0 | the the older versions based on some software things but those are great ways |
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