Stressed, Anxious, or Drained at Work? Here's How To Follow Your Energy, Take Smart Risks, and Find Work You Actually Like | Molly Graham
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Stressed, Anxious, or Drained at Work? Here's How To Follow Your Energy, Take Smart Risks, and Find Work You Actually Like | Molly Graham

B1IntermediateOctober 12, 20261 hr
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  • Relationships & psychology

Plus: the only two things you really take with you when you leave a job, why following a great boss beats chasing a hot company, and why she thinks "I've missed the boat" on AI is a lie. Molly Graham is the host of TED's WorkLife podcast, co-founder of the leadership communities Glue Club and the Guild, and writer of Lessons on Substack. In this episode we talk about: What a flock of starlings can teach you about your career Why not having a long-term plan might be your secret advantage How to navigate...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. Today we're talking about how to actually like your job. I personally consider myself to be in the top .00001% in this regard. I love what I do. I get to do what I want most days. And yet there are still some days where I'm kind of just dreading the fact that I have to

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bulldoze through my to-do list or I'm fearing being a failure. Work is hard even if you love what you do and many of us don't actually love what we do. So, I'm very excited to talk to my guest today who is Molly Graham.

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She's the host of TED's Work Life Podcast. She's also the author of a sub-stack called Lessons where she writes about stuff she has learned inside fast-growing startups like Facebook and Quip. And she is here as part of an occasional series we do called Sanely Ambicious where we talk

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