Busy But Not Productive? Daniel Pink on How to Fix It
About this episode
Daniel Pink joins Jessi Hempel to discuss productivity, meaningful work, and the role of regret in achieving personal goals.
Daniel Pink is a seven-time New York Times bestselling author, a three-time Hello Monday guest, and one of the most trusted voices on motivation and performance. This week, he joins Jessi in the studio to talk about productivity and regret: how to actually get meaningful work done, how to protect your time and attention in an age of infinite distraction, and how to use the things you wish you'd done differently as a map for what you actually care about. Jessi and Dan discuss: Why productivity shouldn’t be measured in units of output, it should be measured in meaningfulness The MIT method: why Daniel writes his single most important task at the top of his to-do list before anything else How to design your environment for deep focus instead of trying to willpower your way there The to-don't list: how to treat the things that drain your time with the same seriousness as the things you need to do Why you probably overestimate how disappointed people will be when you say no, and how to say it cleanly The SNL rule for shipping work: "We don't go on because we're ready. We go on because it's 11:30." What to do when your boss keeps changing the priorities The Pomodoro technique…
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