Leah Weiss on the Power of Mindfulness in the Workplace

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Leah Weiss wears many hats: she's a researcher, professor, consultant, and author. Much of her work to date has surrounded cultivating compassion in the workplace. Her upcoming book, to be released in March 2018, ventures into the realm of bringing mindfulness into the workplace. It turns out, it's not only possible to do so, but it completely transforms the way people experience their work for the better. Hate your job? This interview is PERFECT for you. But you don't have to hate your job to get a lot out of it. Leah Weiss can help you elevate your experience at work no matter your starting point of happiness.

In This Interview, Leah Weiss and I Discuss...

• The Wolf Parable • Her book How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity and Embrace the Daily Grind • The importance of and impact of our experience at work • Mindfulness: the intentional use of attention • The illusion of multitasking • Looking differently at what we're already doing vs doing something differently • Taking all of your life onto the path • How mindfulness helps you transform the experience • The importance of directing our attention to something we've been avoiding because it's painful • How the strategy of avoidance or resistance leads us to be more unhappy • The three types of mindfulness training that we can bring to work • Being in your body • Metacognition • Focus • The Pomodoro Technique • Our crazy streams of consciousness • Eudaimonic happiness vs Hedonic happiness • A helpful strategy for dealing with people who annoy you - in life and at work

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