783: How to Restore Energy and Clarity by Tuning in to Silence with Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Leigh Marz and Justin Zorn share compelling research on the surprising benefits of silence—and how to find it amidst the noise and busyness of today’s world.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The small but powerful ways we can get more rest every day
2) How taking a hike can shorten your to-do list
3) How to resist the pull of your smartphone
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— ABOUT LEIGH & JUSTIN—
Justin Talbot Zorn is an author and policymaker, who has served as both a strategist and a meditation teacher in the US Congress. A Harvard-and-Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of human thriving, Justin’s writing on mindfulness and politics has been published in 12 languages and his work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harvard Business Review, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
Leigh Marz is a leadership coach and collaboration consultant specializing in work with scientists, engineers, and creatives. She spent years working with the climate team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and over a decade facilitating and advising a cross-sector team of chemists, advocates, government regulators, manufacturers, and retailers aiming to reduce toxic chemicals in our homes and environment.
• Book: Golden: The Power of Silence in a World of Noise
• Article: “The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time”
• Article: “How to Build a Culture That Honors Quiet Time”
• Website: AstreaStrategies.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Article: “Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing for Most People, Study Shows”
• Researcher: Joshua M. Smyth
• Researcher: Gordon Hempton
• Researcher: Judson Brewer
• Book: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• Book: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
• Book: Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross
• Book: Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life by Hal Gregersen
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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 |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 783 with Lee, Mars, and Justin Zorn. |
| 0:25.1 | That's right. |
| 0:26.1 | Two people with one great idea, how we can tap into more silence, to get more energy, |
| 0:32.0 | more clarity, more feel good flow in our lives, you'll learn one, the small but powerful |
| 0:37.8 | ways we can get more rest every day. |
| 0:40.2 | Two, how taking a hike can actually shorten your to-do list. |
| 0:44.0 | And three, how to resist the tug of your smartphone. |
| 0:46.7 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:49.6 | we've referenced here, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP 783 for those |
| 0:56.4 | goodies. |
| 0:57.4 | And if you're at awesome at your job.com, please check out some other tidbits like our |
| 1:01.3 | Goldnugget email list where you can get the summary of the actionable wisdom that Justin |
| 1:06.5 | and Lee shared as well as unlocking the archive of all of these summary right ups. |
| 1:12.0 | There's 783 of them now. |
| 1:13.9 | Wow. |
| 1:14.9 | That's a lot. |
| 1:15.9 | We call those the Goldnuggets over at awesomeairjob.com. |
| 1:18.3 | Now, here is Lee and Justin's story. |
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