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: whether it still holds up, and Dan thanked its inventor in the acknowledgments of one of his books
Why regret is one of the most misunderstood and underused emotions we have
The four core regrets that show up across 26,000 people in 130 countries, and what they reveal about what we actually value
This conversation was originally recorded live and broadcast to LinkedIn Premium members. Premium members can find the extended version here.
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