Today we have an episode of Work Life with Adam Grant, a podcast that takes you inside

the minds of some of the world's most unusual professionals to explore the science of making

work not suck. This season, Adam speaks to experts to reassess what it needs to do meaningful

work, how to take time off the right way, and why those meetings you dread could actually

be emails. I love that idea. Listen to the newest season of Work Life out now wherever

you listen to podcasts.

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If you had to identify in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved and

never will achieve its full potential, that word would be meetings.

It's the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist, Dave Barry. He knows that meetings are a source

of misery for too many people in too many workplaces. They're unproductive, awkward, exhausting.

So I asked for your meeting horror stories and you did not disappoint. You ranted about

never-ending meetings. Time really felt like one of those infomercials

for like a miracle drug where they just never really get to the point unless you pay the

$95 or something. You complained about pointless meetings.

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