Work 2.0: Life, Interrupted

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Many of us spend our workdays responding to a never-ending stream of emails and texts. We feel stressed out and perpetually behind on our to-do list. But what if there was a better way to work? This week, we revisit a favorite conversation about "deep work" with computer scientist Cal Newport. And we'll visit a lab that's studying whether brain stimulation can improve our ability to handle multitasking and interruptions. If you like this show, please check out our new podcast, My Unsung Hero! And to learn more about human behavior and ideas that can improve your life, subscribe to our newsletter at news.hiddenbrain.org.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam.
0:05.0	For many people, this is what work sounds like nowadays.
0:15.0	It's a constant thrum of notifications, tweets and messages.
0:20.0	Each time we respond to an email or a text or Google a question that's just popped into our head,
0:26.0	we pay a small price.
0:28.0	In the moment, this price is imperceptible.
0:32.0	But over time, it adds up.
0:35.0	And we haven't quite come to terms with a cost of constant distractions.
0:40.0	We treat it, I think, in this more general sense of it, I probably should be less distracted.
0:45.0	And I think it's more urgent than people realize.
0:52.0	In the third episode of our work 2.0 series,
0:55.0	we revisit a favorite conversation from 2017
0:58.0	to explore questions many of us struggle with on a daily basis.
1:03.0	What are modern day jobs doing to our minds?
1:07.0	Why is it so hard to cultivate focus?
1:10.0	And what would it look like to transform our jobs so that we can engage in deeper, more meaningful work?
1:18.0	People who spend a larger proportion of the professional time concentrating intensely
1:23.0	on a single target tend to enjoy their work a lot more.
1:28.0	There's a lot of different factors about why that might be true,
1:31.0	but I ended by saying that deep life is a good life.
1:35.0	How deep work can change our jobs and our lives,
1:40.0	this week on Hidden Brain.
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