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The Wooden Spoon

I’m too busy! | Saying "yes", burnout and spending your free time

The Wooden Spoon

Sixteenth Productions

Education

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What does hip hop and Harry Potter Society have in common? They're both extra-curricular activities that are discussed in today's podcast! This episode explores the various ways that you can spend your free time, how taking a break can improve your productivity and the numerous benefits to extra-curricular activity. We also look at how you can take on too much, and whether there is validation in being busy.

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Featuring Ruby Granger, Jade Bowler, Eve Cornwell and Jack Edwards

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0:00.0

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0:09.1

Hey everyone and welcome back to The Wooden's Fune.

0:12.7

So it's Jade here and we have got a very exciting episode for you today.

0:17.8

We've actually had a pretty exciting week.

0:19.9

We've been recording some more podcast episodes.

0:23.6

But it's quite rare because for the first time ever,

0:26.7

we've actually been allowed to tell people that we're recording podcast.

0:30.9

Just because every other time we've been recording,

0:33.7

it's been a secret project to me.

0:35.9

But we can't tell you what's going on.

0:38.1

So yeah, it's been quite nice owning that social media today.

0:41.7

Today's episode, we are delving into the realm of extracurricular activities.

0:47.8

And that just kind of means anything that you're choosing to do for yourself

0:52.1

that is kind of away from school work or academic work or work from your job.

0:59.1

And I think so often we can only define our success in those things,

1:05.0

in the academic realm or the work realm,

1:08.2

when so often I think success can come from how we choose to spend our free time.

1:13.1

So yeah, we're just going to discuss that a little bit more today.

1:15.4

We're going to discuss what busy means and why we so often say that we don't have

1:21.8

enough time to take on more things,

1:23.8

but we're also going to touch on taking on too much and being one of those hectic humans

1:29.8

with a timetable schedule for every day and trying to save the world while doing a degree.

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