The Neuroscience Behind Being Productive, With Researcher and Author Josh Davis

The Science of Success

Matt Bodnar

Self-improvement, Social Sciences, Business, Science, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of "The Science of Success", we speak with Columbia Ph.D. Josh Davis, who is currently the director of research for the NeuroLeadership Institute, a NeuroCoach and Master Practitioner of NLP. Josh is also the author of the recent international bestseller Two Awesome Hours, in which he shares science-based strategies to get your most important work done. In today's episode you will learn:Why working all the time means you actually get LESS done.How to conquer overwhelm (using scientific findings, not advice)How to snap out of auto-pilot and make effective use of your timeHow to leverage negative emotion to be more productive A surprising finding about how music impacts your work flowAnd much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Science of Success.
0:05.0	Introducing your host, Matt Bodner.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Science of Success. I'm very excited about the guests we have today.
0:16.0	Josh Davis, Columbia PhD, who's currently the Director of Research for the
0:22.4	Neuro Leadership Institute, a neurocoach and a master practitioner of NLP.
0:27.6	Josh is the author of the recent book Two Awesome Hours, where he shares science-based strategies to get your most important
0:36.2	work done. With that, let's welcome Josh to the show.
0:40.8	Thanks so much for having me here.
0:42.1	It's really nice to be on the show.
0:43.4	And we're super excited to have you.
0:45.4	Do you want to kind of tell readers or give them just a little bit of a kind of
0:49.1	introduction to what two awesome hours is about and what, you know, your story and background?
0:55.0	Oh yeah, I'd love to.
0:57.0	So, you know, where this came from was that I was realizing something that we were all realizing but I guess was feeling compelled to see what I could do about it.
1:08.5	You know, I was working all the time, my wife was working all the time, my friends were working all the time, and
1:14.7	you know good people working hard trying to get a lot of stuff done, really contributing to
1:19.8	their jobs and yet feeling bad at the end of the day and feeling like we hadn't done enough
1:26.3	and this sort of constant sense of overwhelm.
1:29.8	There's no way to kind of catch up.
1:32.7	And, you know, when I saw that, I guess I really
1:37.6	came to a point where I just was just thinking,
1:39.7	that's not right.
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