Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy!
Personal Development
This week, the posts cover career progression, stress, and deep work. I think several of them are thought-provoking and I hope they get your mind spinning on your career and work in general.
Find Your Squiggle. Inspired by a TED talk on squiggly careers, this post highlights the concept and encourages you to discover and embrace the squiggles in your path.
Multipotentialites. This post builds on the Monday post and looks at individuals who have deep interest in more than one discipline.
Organizational Impact of Stress. When we are stressed, our amygdala kicks in. This is the part of our brain that lacks rational thoughts – we act on fear and emotions.
The Experience Sweet Spot. This post explores when our careers are at their “peak”. With average lifetime work shifting from 30 years to 40-50 years, old assumptions need to change.
4 Hours a Day. Research suggest that knowledge workers have the capacity for 4 hours of creative work per day. I pose the question, do most knowledge workers get 1-2 hours between meetings?
PodList
This week there are six podcasts on the list. The topics cover networking, personal storytelling, lifestyle planning, and navigating midlife.
How to Make Networking Less Awkward. 10 minutes. Life Kit. In this podcast episode, Robbie Samuels explains how to create meaningful job connections in more authentic ways.
Storytelling IS Everything for Executives. 24 minutes. Career Blast in a Half. Part 2 – 28 minutes. In these two episodes, Lauren speaks with Michael Margolis on how our internal narrative drives performance and how we view ourselves.
Strengthen the Story. 5 minutes. Before Breakfast. This podcast reminds us to consider the stories we want to tell and what we can do to make those storylines even stronger.
Two Topics in One. This episode covers two posts by Cal Newport – Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life and Deep Habits: Pursue Clarity Before Pursuing Results. 11 minutes. Optimal Work Daily. The first post covers his concept of lifestyle planning which I highly recommend.
Answers to the Big Questions of Midlife. 14 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. This episode features tips and advice from Debra Whitman, an aging expert, to make sure the second half of your life is as rich, rewarding, and healthy as the first.
Do a Meaning Challenge. 4 minutes. Before Breakfast. This episode explores what we can do in the next two weeks to deepen our experience of time.