Ep. 436: Work Smarter, Not Harder? NOPE. Here's your new (better!) way!
Unperform with Tiffany Han (formerly Raise Your Hand Say Yes)
Tiffany Han
4.7 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
We’ve all heard it a million times:
“Work smarter, not harder.”
But guess, what? If that worked, we’d all be doing it already, right?
And if like me, you have ADHD or an otherwise neurodivergent brain, this advice wasn’t created for you.
But not to worry - I've got you!
There absolutely is a way to get things done, without trying to cram your magical brain into the “work-smarter” box. So listen in as we discuss:
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Why “work smarter” isn’t a sustainable strategy
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What balance actually looks (and feels) like
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How to find your Thrive Zone
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Gentle Productivity Club helps you put a new kind of focus on your goals and how you're living, while remaining gentle with yourself and how you're moving through things.
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This Episode In Timestamps:
05:47 The pressure of the word "smart.”
09:28 Embrace gentle living to focus on what matters.
12:08 Thrive zone: optimal conditions for human life.
16:19 Identify your needs and priorities today.
18:15 Prioritize what matters most and find joy.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to raise your hands say yes with Tiffany Hahn, a podcast all about helping you have a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside. Find out more and dive deep into the archives at Tiffany Hahn.com and make sure you're following me over on Instagram at the Tiffany Hahn. Now onto the show. |
| 0:18.4 | Y'all, here's the problem with all of that advice that screams at us every day to work smarter, |
| 0:24.0 | not harder. |
| 0:25.0 | If that was the advice we needed, we wouldn't be here right now because I promise you have |
| 0:29.5 | heard that advice a million times. |
| 0:31.0 | I have heard that advice a million times and we can run ourselves fricking ragged trying to |
| 0:36.6 | figure out and make sure that we're working smarter, |
| 0:39.0 | not harder. |
| 0:39.7 | And oh my God, the amount of pressure that we put on ourselves and the amount of judging we do |
| 0:46.8 | of ourselves because if I am stressed out or if I'm not figuring this out, then I must |
| 0:52.3 | be working neither harder nor smarter enough. |
| 0:56.2 | Nope, not on my watch. Today, I want to talk about a whole new way to approach your work. |
| 1:03.8 | Why chasing smarter is actually doing us no favors and is completely unsustainable. And I want to teach you how |
| 1:13.7 | finding a gentler way towards your productivity helps you both feel like you're living in what I |
| 1:20.4 | like to call the thrive zone and gives you something that is going to start over time to resemble balance, but it's not going to be |
| 1:32.3 | the kind of balance that you probably think you're after. Oh my God. Tiffany, are you telling me that |
| 1:38.8 | all this time that I have been pushing myself to work smarter, not harder, that I have been doing it wrong. |
| 1:45.5 | You've got to be freaking kidding me. |
| 1:47.2 | Listen, if working smarter, not harder, air quotes, works for you. |
| 1:52.1 | Great. |
| 1:53.4 | Keep doing what you're doing. |
| 1:54.8 | Fantastic. |
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