How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. 389 Rebroadcast)

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the U.S. alone, we hold 55 million meetings a day. Most of them are woefully unproductive, and tyrannize our offices. The revolution begins now — with better agendas, smaller invite lists, and an embrace of healthy conflict.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Stephen Dovner.
0:02.0	I recently launched a spin-off podcast with my behavioral psychologist friend Angela Duckworth.
0:06.7	It's called No Stupid Questions.
0:08.4	How satisfied are you with your life?
0:10.4	How do you hack the happiness curve?
0:12.8	How do we explain increasing rates of depression?
0:15.4	Are you suggesting that young people are unrealistically optimistic?
0:20.4	Are you a hard worker?
0:22.1	Marks said money is everything.
0:24.5	Freud said sex is everything.
0:27.0	And Einstein said everything is relative.
0:29.8	And I say you should subscribe to No Stupid Questions right now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.5	As for Freakin' Amix Radio, here's a question for you.
0:43.6	Has sheltering in place protected you from meetings?
0:48.4	No, me neither.
0:49.9	And virtual meetings can be even worse than the regular ones.
0:53.1	So we thought it was time to dig into our archive to play you an important episode.
0:58.0	We put out last year, it's called How to Make Meetings Less Terrible.
1:02.8	Most of the rules still apply, maybe more so, in a socially distance world.
1:08.0	Hope you enjoy.
1:18.8	I'd like you to be particularly open-minded today.
1:21.5	I'd like you to entertain the possibility that two absurdly disconnected stories
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