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The Wooden Spoon

If not now, when? | Proactivity, productivity and seizing opportunity

The Wooden Spoon

Sixteenth Productions

Education

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Episode number 3 is here! This week we hear the group discussing the difference between being proactive and being reactive. Are you a proactive or a reactive person? Eve, Jade, Ruby and Jack discuss how to improve your overall level of productivity, say "yes" to more opportunities and take steps to becoming more proactive. Make sure to follow The Wooden Spoon Playlist here: https://spoti.fi/2GRft2C Thanks so much to the Financial Times for sponsoring this episode. FT.com is free for secondary schools anywhere in the world. Teachers can register their schools and then 16-19 year old students can create their own login at www.ft.com/schoolsarefree Featuring Ruby Granger, Jade Bowler, Eve Cornwell and Jack Edwards

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0:09.3

Welcome back to The Woodens Food, everyone. It's Eve here and since the last time you were here, we hit number one on the UK Podcast Rats,

0:17.3

which is honestly mind blowing. So you're officially listening to a number one podcast.

0:22.7

Don't need to flex but that's incredible. So thank you so so much. We honestly can't believe it.

0:27.8

So I don't know about you guys, but I am currently deep within exam season.

0:31.8

I've literally hardly left the library. I'm kind of dying under my workload.

0:35.5

So hopefully this episode will be super interesting, but also a nice break from the books.

0:40.9

Today we're going to talk all about pro activity and mainly the difference between being reactive and proactive.

0:47.5

For example, before we started this episode, I didn't know there was a difference and apparently it has a big

0:51.9

effect on how productive you can actually be.

0:54.7

We're also going to question whether you're saying yes to all the opportunities that you could be.

0:58.5

So find out all about that in today's episode.

1:01.4

This episode is spoon-served. I'm literally becoming Jack Edwards. I hate this, but we are spoon-served today by the

1:07.4

financial times. So we're going to tell you a bit about that first.

1:11.2

So you will never guess where we are today actually to be fair you weren't

1:24.9

guessed because you can't see us, but we are at the financial time.

1:29.0

It's very exciting. We've had a very exciting morning and we've been given the full

1:32.8

tour around the offices. We've kind of seen behind the scenes of how a major global

1:37.3

newspaper is kind of pulled together and we even sat in on the morning conference this morning

1:42.0

and saw how they how they pulled together the key bits of news which was super exciting.

1:46.6

It intense. It really intense.

1:48.8

I just got confused.

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