Work Dope
Work Dope is all about the sticky messy side … the human side of work … mostly corporate work… Work Dope is for people who work in all levels within corporate, and wish that it didn't have to suck so much. It's for folks who really do want to have a meaningful experience at work, but run into regular frustration; frustration due to what often feels like absurd policy, absurd structure, absurd promotions, or absurd people. Work Dope seeks to provide tips and techniques for better navigation of work-life, but even better, Work Dope is a place for honest discussion (discovery, exploration) on sticky topics that sometimes get avoided. It's for topics that people at the top just don't see -- (ergo topics that never get addressed). Work Dope is a place to learn new ways to be creative, engaged, and interested with one's work, and with one's co-workers (even the ones we wish would disappear).
Work Dope
EP23: Distraction at Work - What to Know, What to Do
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Linda Stacy
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Season 1
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Episode 23
Work Dope is a podcast on the messiness, and the potential, of humans, at work. This is a solo episode on the topic of Distraction (and by extension, interruption and attention). Some themes include:
- The Pyramid of Why’s - i.e. why we engage in any new *thing*
- How modifications in one area life bleed into others
- Human biology, evolution, and history as it relates to our tendency towards distraction
- Why daydreaming and “lack of focus” play important roles are SO important to creativity
- Research / statistics on distraction and interruption at work (how things have gotten “worse” in recent years
- The state of Flow, and how it relates to “knowledge work”
- Multitasking myths and truths, and tips for managing all-the-things [with a full-throttled, high quality of experience (even if messy)]
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