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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

668: Making Work More Meaningful and Fulfilling through Mindfulness and Compassion with Scott Shute

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

LinkedIn’s Head of Mindfulness and Compassion Scott Shute discusses how to improve yourself and your work by practicing more mindfulness and compassion. 


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why mindfulness matters at work 

2) How to keep your inner critic from hijacking your day 

3) The four steps to cultivating compassion 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep668 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT SCOTT — 

Scott was previously the Vice President of LinkedIn’s Customer Operations organization. In his current role as Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, Scott blends his lifelong practice and passion with his practical leadership and operations experience.  His mission is to change work from the inside out by “mainstreaming mindfulness” and “operationalizing compassion.” He is the author of the book The Full Body Yes, available in May 2021. 

• Scott’s book: The Full Body Yes: Change Your Work and Your World from the Inside Out 

• Scott’s website: ScottShute.com 

• Scott’s LinkedIn: Scott Shute 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• App: WisdmLabs 

• App: Wise@Work 

• Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear 

• Book: How to Train Your Mind by Chris Bailey 

• Book: When Sorry Isn’t Enough: Making Things Right with Those You Love by Gary Chapman 

• Book: Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body by Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson 

• Book: The Gift by Hafiz 


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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.2

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.2

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.2

With your host, Pete McHydus.

0:16.2

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 668 with Scott Shoot.

0:24.7

Scott has one of the coolest job titles in the world and he is, share it from experience

0:29.2

how to make work all the more meaningful and fulfilling with some good practices associated

0:35.1

with mindfulness and compassion.

0:37.0

So you'll learn one, why mindfulness matters at work, two, how to keep your inner critic

0:41.2

from hijacking your day, and three, the four steps to cultivating compassion.

0:45.9

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Allen's

0:48.5

We reference, drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP668.

0:53.1

And if you're hanging out at awesome at your job.com, I'd recommend you check out our

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gold nugget email list.

0:59.0

This provides summary wisdom from each guest you can read in about three minutes, delivered

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right to your inbox the day the episode goes live.

1:06.9

And when you sign up, you also unlock the vault of all 668 episodes, summaries.

1:12.4

And we call those the gold nuggets over there at awesome at your job.com.

1:15.6

Now here's Scott's story.

1:17.5

Scott was previously the vice president of LinkedIn's customer operations organization

1:21.3

and his current role as head of mindfulness and compassionate LinkedIn.

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