Dan Pink, Author of WHEN: THE SCIENTIFIC SECRETS OF PERFECT TIMING

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bestselling author, Daniel Pink, changes the way we think about timing in his latest book, WHEN: THE SCIENTIFIC SECRETS OF PERFECT TIMING. Learn about "the cappuccino," when to work out, when to have important meetings, when to get married (and divorced) and more! His TED talk on motivation had 20 million views!!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:28.1	Daniel H. Pink is the author of six books, including the number one New York Times bestsellers, drive to sell as human, and a whole new mind.
0:35.4	His most recent book, When, The Scientific Secrets of Perfect
0:38.8	Timing, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list. Goodreads, Amazon,
0:43.3	and others named it a top nonfiction book of 2018. The former host and co-executive producer of the TV
0:48.6	show Crowd Control, which was a show about human behavior, Daniel regularly appears on
0:53.4	NPR, PBS, and elsewhere. His books
0:55.2	have been translated into 39 languages, which is more languages than I can even name. His articles
1:00.5	and essays have been in the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, and other notable publications.
1:05.1	His TED Talk on The Science of Motivation is one of the 10 most watched TED Talks of all time
1:09.5	with more than 20 million views. A 5-Beta Kappa alum of Northwestern, he received a JD from Leale Law School and was a speechwriter for Al Gore. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his family. Also, just a friendly reminder, please follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens and at Moms. Don't have time to read books. And please subscribe to my podcast. Thank you so much. Hi, Dan. It's Zivie Owens from Mom Tov. How are you? Good, thanks. How are you doing? Good. How are you doing? Good. Thanks so much for coming on. Moms Don't have time to read books. I appreciate you taking the time. I loved your book When. It has changed my life already. Can you tell listeners a little bit about what when is about?
1:45.7	Sure.
1:46.7	When is about the science of timing and ultimately all of the when decisions we make in our life.
1:51.2	And when we make these when decisions, we tend to make them based on intuition and guesswork.
1:56.8	And that's the wrong way to do it.
1:57.9	There is this rich, complex body of science out there
2:01.1	that gives us clues about how to make better,
2:03.7	smarter decisions about when to do things.
2:05.8	Everything from when we should exercise,
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