The Art of Pacing: Why Slowing Down Is a Long Game Strategy (with Elizabeth Svoboda)
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This episode discusses the importance of pacing in productivity with guest Elizabeth Svoboda, emphasizing a long-term strategy for sustaining quality and alignment with personal values.
This episode is brought to you by The 10 Second Inbox—a small, tactical system for taming email without chasing inbox zero. One ten-second decision per message, one calm inbox you can glance at and close. It's launch priced at $29 (reg. $49) through July 26th. Get it at mikevardy.com/10secondinbox (code INBOXTODAY auto-applies). We spend a lot of time talking about how to do more. What we talk about far less — and what might matter far more — is the question of how to pace yourself while you do it. Not as a wellness concept or a vague self-care suggestion, but as a genuine strategy for sustaining quality, avoiding collapse, and staying aligned with what actually matters to you over time. Elizabeth Svoboda is the author of The Art of Pacing: A Guide to Balancing Shorter-Term Demands with Long-Term Thriving , and this conversation covers a lot of ground in the best possible way. Elizabeth is a science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Psychology Today, and many other publications. Her book grew out of a thirty-year reckoning with her own pacing failures — a culture of maximum output with no equivalent emphasis on what you leave to the side. What she built…
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