Over the years you’ve accumulated a lot of people in your orbit. In this edition of Doing What Works we’re going to encourage you to take a look at them as energy sources or energy drains. Maybe you can’t totally excise the drains, but you can almost certainly minimize your exposure to them. And while you’re at it, don’t fall into the trap of conserving energy. Because as Katie reminds us, the more you expend the more you have.

Here are your show notes…

What We Do in the Shadows [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/] talks about energy vampires.

“Yes, and” is a principle of improv [https://improv.eu/principles/].

The Biocybernaut [https://www.biocybernaut.com/maureen-anderson/] experience was a game changer for Maureen.

“You don’t have eight hours a day to create. You have two. Plan accordingly.” That’s from Naval Ravikant [https://twitter.com/naval].

In Matthew Sanford’s book, Waking [https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Memoir-Transcendence-Matthew-Sanford/dp/159486845X], he says one task of life is coming to terms with how relentlessly repetitive adulthood can be.

The most important metric to track is personal energy. That’s from Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays].