906: How to Optimize Your Workspace for Your Wellbeing with Dr. Esther Sternberg

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Esther Sternberg reveals how to enhance your office environment to improve your health and boost performance.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How your workspace affects your wellbeing.

2) How your surroundings impact your sleep.

3) Tiny changes in lighting and sound that immediately improve your environment.

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— ABOUT ESTHER —

Esther M. Sternberg, M.D. is a Professor of Medicine, Psychology, and Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Arizona and has been internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries on the mind-body-stress interaction in healing and the impact of built environments on integrative health and wellness. She’s advised the World Health Organization, the US Institute of Medicine, the Vatican, and more, and has been featured on national stages, including CBS’ 60 Minutes, SXSW, NPR, ABC News, and more.

• Book: Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being

• Book: The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions

• Book: Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in any Workspace

• Website: https://esthersternberg.com/

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Article: “The Basque Sheepherder and the Shepherd Psalm by James K. Wallace

• Book: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Study: Discovery of associative patterns between workplace sound level and physiological wellbeing using wearable devices and empirical Bayes modeling

• Podcaster: Andrew Huberman

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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 McHydus.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to episode 906 with Dr. Esther Sternberg.
0:22.0	Esther has towering wisdom when it comes to how to optimize your workspace
0:28.0	those elements of design that you can control that make a world of difference for feeling great,
0:34.0	feeling productive, sleeping well, being happy, and just overall awesomeness at your job and at your life
0:42.0	from sometimes subtle shifts in your work environment.
0:45.0	Cool stuff from Esther.
0:46.0	So you'll learn one, how your workspace affects your well-being,
0:49.0	two, how your surroundings impact your sleep,
0:52.0	and three, tiny changes in lighting and sound that immediately improve your environment.
0:57.0	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that we've referenced,
1:01.0	please drop them by awesomenerjob.com slash EP906.
1:05.0	Now here's a bit about Esther.
1:06.0	Esther Sternberg MD is a professor of medicine, psychology, and architecture,
1:11.0	landscape, architecture, and planning at the University of Arizona.
1:14.0	And has been internationally recognized for her pioneering discoveries on the mind, body, stress, interaction,
1:19.0	healing, and the impact of built environments on integrative health and wellness.
1:23.0	She's advised the World Health Organization, the US Institute of Medicine, the Vatican and more,
1:27.0	and been featured on national stages, including CBS's 60 Minutes, South by Southwest,
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