Does Time Equal Money?

the goop podcast

Gwyneth Paltrow

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In Celeste Headlee’s book—Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving—she examines our fractured relationships to work. Why do we use productivity as a measure of self-worth? Where does our obsession with efficiency come from? In this episode, she shares strategies for maintaining healthy boundaries around work and play and for developing more transparency between managers and employees. She also sells us on taking time off: “When someone takes all their vacation days, they actually end up being more productive, more effective, less error-prone, and more creative than someone who doesn’t.” (For more, see The goop Podcast hub.) To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Don't hold anything too tightly. Just wish for it, want it, let it come from the
0:10.6	intention of real truth for you, and then let it go. For me our soul is like it's
0:16.8	unbound, it's limitless, but we will use words to limit ourselves. When people
0:23.2	stop believing that somebody's got your back or Superman's coming we turn to
0:28.9	ourselves and that's where you become empowered. Courageous participation attracts
0:35.3	positive things. I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. This is the Goop podcast bringing together
0:42.0	thought leaders, culture changers, creatives, founders and CEOs, scientists,
0:47.5	doctors, healers and seekers. Here to start conversations because simply asking
0:53.1	questions and listening has the power to change the way we see the world.
0:56.8	Today is no exception. I'll let Elise fill you in on her extraordinary guest.
1:02.7	All right, over to Elise. My guest today is author and journalist Celeste
1:10.0	Hadley. Earlier this year as COVID broke on our shores Celeste published a
1:14.8	fascinating book called Do Nothing, How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing
1:20.6	and Underliving, where she examines our fractured relationship with not only our
1:25.6	jobs but more importantly our time and the metrics with which we evaluate our
1:31.0	lives. Like many authors whose work came out in early 2020,
1:35.2	her book ended up taking on a whole new meaning as the year unfolded.
1:38.7	Since for many people the boundary between home and work life became all the more
1:43.2	blurry and we felt both our powerlessness and often an overwhelming
1:48.5	desire to do everything. Today we talk about our addiction to self-
1:53.0	improvement and why it's problematic for us to measure our self-worth through
1:57.2	productivity. We talk about the history behind the idea that time is money
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