Yeah, I have no willpower. Like, if my phone is near me, I'm just, I'm just like on Instagram.

We basically said, the workday is for it being interrupted. And then outside of the work day,

that's when you need to get your work done. And I think that's tragic. I think it's an epidemic,

actually. I think that a life in which you are never present, in which you have no control over your

attention, in which you're constantly being pulled in different directions, is sort of

sad, because there is this incredible gift of consciousness. And when that consciousness is

deployed smartly, it's amazing the things that can be built out out of it. I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is a

sneak preview of Hurry Slowly, a new podcast about how to find more creativity and meaning in our daily

lives, a show where we break from the idea that busy is better, more is better, faster is better,

and instead stop to smell the roses, proving that you can actually be more productive by slowing down.

I believe, and the science backs me up on this, that we do higher quality work and feel a stronger

sense of meaning in our lives when we're able to take our time, when we can hurry

slowly. So that's what the show is all about, leveling up by slowing down. I'll be talking to

artists, researchers, and entrepreneurs who are thinking deeply about topics like how we define

what working hard means and culture that's obsessed with busyness.

We're very all or nothing, we Americans, right?

And there's this sort of macho ideology around putting in long hours and somehow have

to have kind of deified busyness even in a way that I think is really, really detrimental.

I mean, study after study has shown that after 55 hours a week, which is a pretty robust

work week, your performance just goes down the drain.

You're not really getting anything done.

How we can guard our time more carefully and get better at saying no.

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