Trying to achieve a perfect work–life balance is a misguided strategy at the mid-career stage, Julie Gould discovers.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03164-yJulie Gould: 00:08
And every new opportunity is going to seem like a shiny new car, right? It’s something you want to do and something you want to have. But you’ve also already made commitments to past opportunities. So it’s very hard to say no to these new things that you want to have, the new shiny toys.This is Andrea Armani. And she is the Vice Dean and a professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Southern California in the US.
Now, not everyone is going to sit on 30 committees, but the mid career does become rather busy. So how do you manage your time? And how do you make sure you don't burn out? Collecting data about how you work and what you spend your time on can help you see where you’re being efficient, and where there’s some room for improvement.To do this Inger uses a program called Timing, which you can use on a Mac, or the equivalent for PC users is called Rescue Time.
And I must say I’m quite obsessed with it. It becomes an end in itself the old productivity thing. But well worth doing.You know, no, I don’t. I build I build in ambiguity, which is, I think, different from flexibility. But then, also, the other thing that you look at that list, it’s either the time it's going to take, how you feel about it in terms of your energy, and how urgent it is.And then the boring urgent stuff is squeezed, but there's no flexibility,I’m fairly certain I can say that most of us have done this before, getting the really good and exciting stuff done really quickly, and at the very first thing, and leaving the really boring stuff until the last minute.
Now imagine one of those cut in half and over the top you put a circular plastic board that you can stand on, so that the half Swiss ball is underneath. This is called a balance ball.And you’re supposed to like stand on it and try and balance right? Like, you’re always constantly adjusting.
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