Alex Soojung-Kim Pang | The importance of Rest & 4 Day Week

My guest today is Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, he is a program director at 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit advocating for the 4-day workweek. His trilogy of books— SHORTER: Work Better, Smarter and Less— Here’s How (Public Affairs, 2020); REST: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less (Basic Books, 2016), and THE DISTRACTION ADDICTION (Little Brown, 2013)— shows how companies and individuals can better integrate rest, creativity, and focus into digital-age lives and work. Alex has been a consultant at Institute for the Future and Strategic Business Insights, and a visiting scholar at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. Alex received a Ph.D. in history and sociology of science from the University of Pennsylvania.

I read Alex’s book Rest a while ago, and then I came back to it during Covid. In a high-pressure, ever changing environment, I grew to appreciate yet again the importance of Rest. I see it as a life changing advantage in a life of an investor, or any professional. Alex’s book gave me tools, and guidance how to include rest in my life, and how to do it well. It also gave me a permission to see rest as an important part of my daily life.

Today, you’ll hear about:

1) The concept of Obliquity as in reaching your goals in an indirect way.

2) Learning to rest better

3) Seeing rest not as absence of work or opposite to work, but as an equal

4) The importance of rest in life of an investor, and what benefits it can offer

5) The impact of remote work on our rest and productivity.

Please help me welcome, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

LINKS

Strategy+Rest: www.strategy.rest

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/askpang

Twitter and Instagram: @askpang

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