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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to work slower.

Sometimes doing things at a deliberate pace can lead to better work.

It can also lead to you feeling better about your work, which is no small thing.

Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from Chris Bailey's new book, How to Calm Your Mind. This book is all about finding

presence and productivity in anxious times. Chris notes that the opposite of burnout isn't doing

nothing. It's engagement. The more engaged we are with our lives, the less anxious and the more productive

we will be. While we can certainly build engaging hobbies and activities into our lives,

it's even better if we can feel actively engaged in our work. One way to do that, according to Chris, it's working slower.

As you turn down the stimulation factor by ending multitasking, you will naturally dive deeper into

what you are doing, Chris writes. There is great joy to be found in working with a thoughtful

deliberateness on what's important. If you value productivity, as I do, don't worry. What you'll

lose in speed you'll easily earn back and making progress on what's important.

This is a lesson I am continually relearning when it comes to doing deep knowledge work.

The more slowly I work, the more impact my work tends to have.

Now, Chris's argument here doesn't mean

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