How To Not Go Crazy Under Quarantine
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're struggling with the same problem as our listeners: self-quarantine. As news of the coronavirus pandemic intensifies, how do we stay sane while staying home? How do we reduce stress and remain healthy while juggling remote work and rambunctious kids? In this episode of How To!, we bring in Celeste Headlee, author of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Long before the pandemic, Headlee spent a lot of time thinking about how to slow down while practicing her own kind of social distancing—in her case from a hectic life and career. Headlee's first tip? Pick up the phone and call someone. "It can't be underestimated how powerful the voice is," she says. "It gives you a feeling of belonging…the most important need that a human being has after survival."
What are your toughest challenges during the pandemic? And what have you found is working for you? Leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001. We're collecting your problems and solutions for a recurring segment on the show.
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| 0:30.2 | When you were writing your book and you were spending time doing nothing, what was the |
| 0:35.3 | most surprising thing you learned from that experience? |
| 0:38.4 | That I got more done. Huh. How do you mean? That the, when I stopped working really, |
| 0:46.1 | really long hours, I was actually more productive. Yeah, that was that was very surprising to me. |
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| 1:01.9 | So I got an email from a friend of a friend a few days ago, and I imagine some of you have gotten letters similar to this. This is what he wrote. |
| 1:10.7 | I believe that I've been fighting coronavirus |
| 1:12.7 | for about two weeks, and I likely exposed people I care about deeply to the virus before I realized |
| 1:19.0 | what I had. He goes on to explain that over a week in early March, just as the pandemic was starting, |
| 1:25.7 | he was in a different airport every single day. |
| 1:28.4 | And, you know, he was like washing his hands like crazy and doing all the things we're supposed |
| 1:31.5 | to do. But he was also only sleeping a few hours every night because he was rushing to meetings |
| 1:36.3 | and he wasn't eating healthily and everyone on the planes he was on were coughing. |
| 1:42.2 | Eventually, he makes it home to the U.S. and you kind of know how the rest of it goes. |
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