Leah Weiss on the Power of Mindfulness in the Workplace

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Leah Weiss wears many hats: she's a researcher, professor, consultant, and author. Much of her work to date has surrounded cultivating compassion in the workplace. Her upcoming book, to be released in March 2018, ventures into the realm of bringing mindfulness into the workplace. It turns out, it's not only possible to do so, but it completely transforms the way people experience their work for the better. Hate your job? This interview is PERFECT for you. But you don't have to hate your job to get a lot out of it. Leah Weiss can help you elevate your experience at work no matter your starting point of happiness.

In This Interview, Leah Weiss and I Discuss...

The Wolf Parable
Her book How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity and Embrace the Daily Grind
The importance of and impact of our experience at work
Mindfulness: the intentional use of attention
The illusion of multitasking
Looking differently at what we're already doing vs doing something differently
Taking all of your life onto the path
How mindfulness helps you transform the experience
The importance of directing our attention to something we've been avoiding because it's painful
How the strategy of avoidance or resistance leads us to be more unhappy
The three types of mindfulness training that we can bring to work
Being in your body
Metacognition
Focus
The Pomodoro Technique
Our crazy streams of consciousness
Eudaimonic happiness vs Hedonic happiness
A helpful strategy for dealing with people who annoy you - in life and at work

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0:00.0	multitasking doesn't exist. There's only tasks switching.
0:11.6	Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
0:16.7	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:23.7	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend to
0:28.5	toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have, instead of what we do,
0:35.6	we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking.
0:41.0	Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:47.3	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:51.7	how they feed their good wolf.
0:58.9	Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Leah Weiss, PhD.
1:14.0	Leah is a researcher, professor, consultant, and author. She teaches courses on compassionate
1:20.0	leadership at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and is a principal teacher and founding
1:25.2	faculty for Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama.
1:30.5	She also directs compassion education and scholarship at Hope Lab. Her new book is How We Work,
1:37.4	Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace The Daily Grind.
1:41.9	This episode is sponsored by Warby Parker. Go to WarbyParker.com slash One You Feed. That's all
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