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Working: Working on Oneself

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts June Thomas and Isaac Butler discuss a listener’s query about how much importance one should grant ‘working on oneself.’ They share their different methods of pausing for self reflection, such as a quarterly, personal check-ins, mulling over problems that peers frequently encounter, and envisioning an ideal future. Do you have a question about creative work? Leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com.    Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Upgrading your gas boiler to an EDF air source heat pump could save on emissions and cash in the future.

0:05.8

You could cut your carbon footprint by about 12% a year.

0:09.4

That's similar to a return flight from London to Perth.

0:12.4

Plus, we'll arrange your £5,000 boiler upgrade grant

0:16.2

over 22 years installation experience.

0:19.0

EDF, help in Britain achieve net zero.

0:22.0

Based on average household with an aerated gas boiler,

0:24.0

ONS reports BA carbon calculator and energy saving trust data grant subject to eligibility details at edfnity.com.

0:36.0

Welcome back to working overtime.

0:38.2

The advice forward Robin to workings Batman.

0:41.0

I'm your host Isaac Butler.

0:42.8

I guess that makes me Robin just to say you're the host June Thomas.

0:48.0

June, I would like to congratulate you on reaching an important milestone.

0:52.8

I am not talking about the work on your forthcoming book about lesbian life

0:58.4

in the 20th century through the series of different spaces that were important to that life.

1:02.6

But rather you have survived your first winter in Scotland.

1:05.8

There's now daylight where you are.

1:08.6

I imagine how's life. What's it like?

1:10.8

You know, I think people mistake Scotland for like northern Minnesota.

1:15.0

It's really quite mild here.

1:17.4

It's lovely today. The weather is perfect for me.

1:20.4

It's about 60 degrees or as we say here and in the rest of the world about 16 degrees.

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