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LinkedIn News Hey, it's Jessie coming at you with a short Thursday bonus episode.

You know, we've always done that every once in a while. When we have a little something extra

to say or something we'd love you to hear, we drop you an episode on Thursday. But honestly,

it's been a while since we've had a Thursday episode.

You know, now the show has been around for four years. Four years this month, it's our

anniversary. We have more than 200 episodes. And I've been reflecting on just how much I've

learned personally from the people that I've interviewed. You know, I talk to all these people with

so many good ideas and strategies for how to excel in their careers, how to do work better,

but also how to do life better. And some of those strategies really don't stick for me.

They just don't work. Maybe I'm not the kind of person who could apply them.

Like, I'll give you an example. I love talking to Adam Grant and everything he has to say feels

like a good idea, but I just don't seem to have the discipline that Adam has. His ideas don't

always work for me. Like that idea he has about batching emails that ask for favors and then

answering them all at once once a week. I'm just not organized enough either to set aside

those favors as they come in or to devote the consistent time of a week on a calendar to answering

them. That's cool. I mean, maybe that episode was really perfect for someone else, right?

But then every once in a while we interview someone and unexpectedly what they have to say just

really sticks. It works for me. It makes things better for me.

You know, my mornings are kind of chaotic and frantic. If we all get up on time and if the

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