On Time: Move, Think, and Rest with Natalie Nixon

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of this month’s series on time, Laura Vanderkam taught us how to make every minute of each day count. Last week Cal Newport redefined productivity over the course of weeks. But how do you string those days and weeks together into a fulfilling career? Our guest today is helping us to examine the cadence of our years and decades. Natalie Nixon is a creativity strategist, entrepreneur, and thought leader. She’s the author of The Creativity Leap and is working on a second book introducing her “Move, Think, Rest” framework for unlocking your fullest potential. She sits down with Jessi to discuss how movement and rest fuel deep thought, how we can cultivate work differently, and how to fall in love with the process rather than obsess over the outcome. Follow Natalie Nixon on LinkedIn and check out her recent book, The Creativity Leap Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community and continue the conversation with us: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter Join us this week and every week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page Join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:05.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, this is Hello Monday. So my first really big break in my career came when I was hired at Fortune magazine.
0:23.0	I still remember the afternoon that the editor-in-chief,
0:27.0	Andy Serwer, invited me to meet him at a restaurant
0:30.0	and put a contract in front of my face.
0:33.0	Now he was hiring me to be a senior writer,
0:35.0	and that job was kind of an amorphous job.
0:38.0	I was supposed to pitch and write large magazine stories about technology.
0:43.0	It's supposed to be really ambitious so that if I did my job right,
0:46.6	every single one would be like a cover story.
0:49.7	Now these stories might take three months to report.
0:52.6	They required creativity and craft to write.
0:56.4	They might take several drafts and rewrites.
0:58.5	And sometimes I'd get right up to the point of publication
1:01.4	and the New York Times would scoop us and the story would
1:04.7	get killed all together.
1:07.2	At the same time I was also supposed to be writing smaller stories, a couple of them every
1:11.0	week for our website, and I was supposed to go to conferences and events and honestly all of that work
1:17.4	It was just easier it was easier to get all that small stuff done
1:21.2	You know the short pieces and the listicles. I'd lift up my head at the end of a long week
1:26.3	and realize I hadn't done any work at all on a longer story. I had this mentor at the magazine and I asked him for some advice and he closed the door and he said forget the small stuff like don't even do it and wait till somebody notices because here's the thing, he said.
1:43.6	No one's going to remember the small stuff.
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