Power Up: A New Project From Nerdette
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Here at Nerdette we’ve been thinking a lot about how much the world can wear us down. Which has led us to a very important question: How do so many successful, inspiring people have the time and energy to be so successful and inspiring?
Power Up is a new project where we ask fascinating people how they set themselves up for success in what can be an exhausting world. How do amazing (non-robot) humans recharge their (hypothetical) batteries? We want to know! Because we all have the same number of hours in a day — even the scientists, poets, astronauts and adventurers — and as Oprah might say: You need to LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
| 0:05.0 | Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more. |
| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org |
| 0:12.6 | slash events. |
| 0:13.6 | From W be easy Chicago I'm Greta Johnson and I am here |
| 0:18.7 | to tell you about a new project from Nurdett |
| 0:20.9 | it is called Power Up. |
| 0:24.0 | It's our hope that this inspires you and enriches you and gives you power. |
| 0:30.0 | So here's the deal. We've been thinking a lot about how relentless this world can feel between |
| 0:38.8 | the 24-hour news cycle and the internet and just like your job and your errands and your personal |
| 0:45.2 | relationships there are so many different things constantly vying for |
| 0:49.4 | your attention so we're going to spend the next eight weeks exploring what helps people recharge |
| 0:55.8 | their batteries. We're going to talk to fascinating people who are really good |
| 0:59.0 | at a lot of different kinds of jobs about how they make sure they're at their A game when it really counts. |
| 1:04.6 | And we're going to hear from a lot of different kinds of people, including stand-up comedians |
| 1:09.2 | and rap group hype men and even literal astronauts. |
| 1:13.4 | It was an incredibly special privilege for me to get to be in space for those couple of weeks |
| 1:19.2 | and you do try to reflect back on it, you know, when you're having a difficult moment. |
| 1:22.7 | Although my job is to like wear wigs and scream, I am kind of an introvert. |
| 1:28.6 | The separation between work and you is very minimal, if at all, all you know like this was my hobby |
| 1:34.6 | stand-up comedy for example was my hobby and now it's my life so what's my |
| 1:38.0 | hobby I don't have one a quote I heard was love yourself like your own mother, like you're your own mother, |
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