2024-05-06
56 分钟Work is a worry. Are we paid enough? Should we be getting promoted quicker? Is artificial intelligence about to replace us all? Speaking at SXSW 2024, Dr Laurie Santos argues that because of all our career woes we often neglect our happiness. She walks through her top five tips for improving our workplace wellbeing - which will not only make us feel better, but might even cause our salaries to rise! Suggested reading from this episode: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN by Tara Brach Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It by Christina Maslach The Business of Friendship by Shasta Nelson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As fans of this show probably know, I've thought a whole lot about happiness in academic settings, about how teens and young adults can be happier at school or in college.
But when I attended the 2023 south by Southwest Conference, I had a chance to take part in a great panel which talked about the challenges of maintaining our wellbeing at work.
So at this year's south by Southwest, I returned to give a special talk about what science says we should do to thrive in our rapidly changing workplaces.
The audience in Austin really seem to enjoy it, so I wanted to share that talk with you today.
I hope you enjoy it.
Hello.
Hello, south by folks.
Today we're gonna be talking about the future of work because the landscape of work is changing.
You know, take the fact that we're kind of dealing with technology changes, right?
We're all trying to figure out how these new tools like ChatGPT and AI are going to change the landscape of how we do our creative work, how we do knowledge work generally, right?
This is something that's kind of on our mind about the future of work.
On our mind about the future of work is also the question of where we work.
You know, like the fact that we're no longer in these big office buildings that so many companies have paid for, like the fact that we wind up working at home with a lot of distractions around us all the time.
But beyond that, we also have questions about how the economy is shaping the future of work.
And the fact that some of us might not be working in the same place that we were working a couple years ago.
What does that mean?
That these things are changing around, especially for the folks who might have been laid off or had some career changes, but also for the folks that are in the same career that they were in before.
If your mindset is on your worries about leaving work, if your mindset is on quiet quitting, what is that doing to the nature of work and how we focus on it?
But this is a session on happiness and wellbeing.
And so we're going to be focused on the question of what the future of work says about happiness and how our own mental health and our wellbeing might be involved in the future of work in ways that we actually don't expect.