Listener Favorites: Madeleine Dore | Redefining What it Means to be Productive

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode, Madeleine Dore discusses how we can redefine productivity by embracing the messiness of life. Dore shares her insights on dismantling comparison, aspirational routines, and unrealistic expectations, encouraging listeners to find their own way to navigate the never-ending list of things to do. Tune in to discover a new perspective on what it means to be productive.

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0:00.0	As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting
0:04.6	some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical
0:09.4	strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve
0:14.4	personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get
0:18.5	recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.
0:24.7	What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose. Again, this idea of it meeting a rut or this idea of even aspiring after it, sometimes it strikes me as
0:38.6	odd because what is a routine, by definition, you know, it's a pattern, it's stagnant,
0:45.3	it's the same. And we want our days to look like that, which is then almost a groundhog day.
0:52.7	If we stuck to the perfect routine, we'd have the same day over
0:55.8	and over and over again. And isn't it that we want our lives to have variance and interest
1:01.8	and depth and, you know, learnings? And that comes from things having, you know, that variance.
1:09.5	And so the rut is very much, I think it's,
1:13.0	it might be a common experience to land in one without realizing because here we are
1:17.3	pursuing optimized routines and optimized productivity and then getting, say we got there,
1:24.7	then we just have the same day over and over again and not realize that we're actually stuck in something. And so that's where they kind of meet each other, simply through the
1:31.9	definition of the two words, really, because a rut is, you know, being stuck in a groove. And so
1:37.9	you might have a routine for a while that is a groove, but then you get stuck in that very groove.
1:47.3	I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast,
1:51.0	where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds
1:55.1	who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books,
1:59.2	and created insanely interesting art.
2:01.1	For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.
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