“Someone once told me the definition of hell; on your last day on earth, the person you could have become will meet the person you became.”

We often go through life doing stuff, often without assessing is it the right stuff, we don’t even do stuff for ourselves and we end up wondering what we could have done in our lives.

Globally, not having enough time is a cause of immense stress. Today’s show is dedicated to shining a light on how we could better manage our time and focus on what is important.

Our guest is internationally recognised expert on time investment and author of ‘How to invest your time like money” Elizabeth Grace Saunders

We talk:

Symptoms of poor time management

The psychology behind our issues

The ways we can recognise where we are going wrong

The framework of how to manage our time

The routines for recurring time costs

and much more

You can find out about Elizabeth and her books here:

https://reallifee.com/

We live in a world where the art of communication has become more important than ever, yet very few of us are taught how to communicate.

Joel Schwartzberg is a strategic communications trainer. The biggest obstacle he’s come across—one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, an epic fail is that most speakers and writers don’t have a point.

They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less.

This show is about how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it, and train others to turn their biggest fear into their greatest strength, and be the best champions of their greatest ideas.

You can find out about Joel and his work here:

https://www.joelschwartzberg.net/gettothepoint

If you pick up a book on innovation or creativity, it is often written from an expertise-in-one-area perspective. This isolates other elements which may be much more relevant to your challenge.

Professor David Owens has written this accessible book for everyone breaking the silos of discipline to give a rounded framework useful to all fields. This is a must listen for corporate innovators, leaders and innovators of any kind.

We discuss:

The six constraints of innovation.

The challenges of silos How we are constrained individually, in groups and in society.

The challenges of expertise and the opportunities of true diverse thinking.

You can find out more about David and his work here: https://creativepeoplemustbestopped.com/

You can buy his book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creative-People-Must-Stopped-Innovation/dp/1118002903/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

“A great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their jobs, too, are squarely in the sights as software automation and predictive algorithms advance rapidly in capability.” ― Martin Ford

Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of the New York Times bestselling “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and “The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future,” as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He has over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

We talk:

The perfect storm of technology, climate change and technological unemployment

The automation wave Automation replacing human brains as well as brawn

Exponential Growth and Moore’s Law

Universal Basic Income

Job Stagnation

Economic Singularity

Technological Unemployment

His upcoming book ‘Architects of the Artifical Intelligence Revolution’

“It is time we focus less on our hardware and more on our humanware.” – Larry D. Rosen PhD. Dr Larry Rosen is the best-selling author of multiple books including ones we will talk about today: iDisorder and The Distracted Mind, which touch on the disorders we are experiencing, amplified by technology and why we are behaving the way we do.

We talk:

The state of distraction

The increasing anxiety experienced

The multitude of scientific studies on attention spans iDisorders and how anxiety has surpassed depression and the no.1 disorder for the youth

Why we keep checking our phones

The tools and strategies to counteract poor attention and focus

Sleep deprivation and sleep debts

How napping is not enough

How our brain works and how it flushes toxic chemicals

Strategies to sleep better

Music can help us calm down

How psychological problems form in technology

The attention economy and social networks

How parents can counteract iDisorders in their children

How parents can counteract their own iDisorders

The effect of first-person shooter games on the mind

The multitasking myth Instant gratification in children

The challenge of single screening

The current challenge of focus

More about Larry Rosen and his books here: http://drlarryrosen.com/topics/books/

Talks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivyQtk-5OZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0OqA0pmAag&t=2s

Psychology Today Blog: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/experts/larry-d-rosen-phd