Sunday Pick: Protecting your time with Linda Babcock | WorkLife with Adam Grant
TED Talks Daily
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🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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In this season of WorkLife, we’re pairing each of our regular episodes with a companion interview to do a deeper dive into the topic. This is the deeper dive for our episode on how to say no. Linda Babcock is a professor emerita of economics at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of “The No Club,” a club of people who help each other set boundaries. Linda and Adam share some of their personal struggles and lessons with around no, discuss Linda’s research on why women take on more non-promotable tasks at work, and explore novel strategies for us all to guard our time against people who don’t respect it.
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| 1:59.6 | The current season of work Life has been all about |
| 2:02.5 | saying no, which is not always easy. In this episode of Work Life, host Adam Grant spoke with |
| 2:09.3 | Linda Babcock, who is a professor emerita of economics at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of |
| 2:15.3 | The No Club, about a club of people who help each other set boundaries. |
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