Surviving Winter Working Life—and how to get through the cold, dark, wet months for those who, like me, become a grumpy git when the clocks go back.

Also: a reader comment on my last article • a podcast on AI and work • and an update about my own work and the Great Work book I’m writing.

Books I refer to in this episode:

Kari Leibowitz, How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days*. New York: Penguin, 2024.

David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World*. New York: Henry Hold, 2022.

MY ROBOT BOSS podcast:

* Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/my-robot-boss/id1831832043

* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/74csYO02Y6HcIn1tITZwmh?si=3e1b15568d3c4bbb

* Devon Forster McConnell (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonmcconnell/

Links:

* Light therapy (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy

* Light therapy/seasonal major depressive disorder (research): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032724000399

* Light therapy/milder symptoms (research): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12167524/

* Kari Leibowitz’s research: https://internationaljournalofwellbeing.org/index.php/ijow/article/view/935/977

* Hygge (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge

* Previous episode—“It’s the reaction, not the stuff”: https://letter.adamsandell.com/p/its-the-reaction-not-the-stuff-f74

* Reader comment on time-boxing: https://letter.adamsandell.com/p/time-boxing

* Comment on time-boxing piece: https://letter.adamsandell.com/p/time-boxing/comment/160768193

* Evidence on harms of task-switching: Robert D. Rogers and Stephen Monsell, “Costs of a Predictible [sic] Switch between Simple Cognitive Tasks,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 124, no. 2 (1995): 207–31, https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.124.2.207; Renata F. I. Meuter and Alan Allport, “Bilingual Language Switching in Naming: Asymmetrical Costs of Language Selection,” Journal of Memory and Language 40, no. 1 (January 1, 1999): 25–40, https://doi.org/10.1006/jmla.1998.2602; Joshua S. Rubinstein, David E. Meyer, and Jeffrey E. Evans, “Executive Control of Cognitive Processes in Task Switching,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 27, no. 4 (2001): 763–97, https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.27.4.763; Ulrich Mayr and Reinhold Kliegl, “Task-Set Switching and Long-Term Memory Retrieval,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 26, no. 5 (2000): 1124–40, https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-7393.26.5.1124.

* Multi-tasking and gender (research): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0220150

* I need a break: https://letter.adamsandell.com/p/tired-exhausted-burned-out

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