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Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
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Episodes
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S47E2 The Curiosity Gap
Exploring the curiosity or knowledge gap, a concept coined by Chip and Dan Heath and backed up by science. Curiosity might be the key to effective learning…
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S47E1 Curiosity - the wick of learning?
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime considering whether curiosity is a good or a bad thing to kick off the new series.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S47E1 Curiosity - the wick of learning?
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime considering whether curiosity is a good or a bad thing to kick off the new series.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E10 Slow productivity - stopping
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and thinking about stopping in order to return. The final episode of this series of Walk the Pod.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E9 Slow productivity and prioritisation
You can just hear an air ambulance taking off from the helipad at St George’s hospital at the end of this episode. A voicenote from Dad reminds us to…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E8 Slow productivity - pay attention to what brings joy
Walking around my local streets grumbling about the weather. It’s the Walk the Pod way! Plus an exploration of how much time we spend seeking validation from…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E7 Slow productivity - never mind
Never minding what happens could be the secret to contentment and calm. A 10 minute walk around the park behind the hospital considering slow productivity.
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S46E6 Slow productivity and radical self-trust
What if all procrastination is just ideas marinading? What if we were to trust that if we’re not doing something, it is because the time is not quite right?…
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S46E5 Slow Productivity and working from home
We expect to work from home now unless our job makes that impossible. This 10 minute walking episode considers: whether that lends itself to slow productivity.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E4 Slow productivity - Fold it in
Austin Kleon’s wonderful book ’Show Your Work’ is the focus of today’s daily walking episode of Walk the Pod. Get away from your desk for just 10 minutes and…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E3 Slow productivity - Cal’s three messages
Three messages from Cal Newport on slow productivity.
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S46E2 Slow productivity and Jim Collins’ flywheel
This 10 minute walking episode considers Jim Collins’ flywheel, a terrific slow productivty tool.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46E1 Slow Productivity
This 10 minute lunchtime walk considers: What does slow productivity mean to you? Is it achievable in our increasingly busy world? A stroll around the park…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S46 trailer
Series 46 is on the way! Join me from Monday 15 April for the first of ten daily walking episodes to make your daily walk that little bit easier. We’ll be…
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S45E10 Thank you for listening
Walking my local streets and thanking you for listening from the bottom of my heart. I’ll be back in April with Series 46. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk…
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S45E9 Stay with uncertainty part II
Walking around my local streets asking whether positively attacking uncertainty with plans is just as much an inability to cope with it as being scared and…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S45E8 Uncertainty and routine
A walk around my local streets this lunchtime and a chance encounter with a black and white cat.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S45E7 Uncertainty and radical self-trust
Walking my local streets thinking about radical self-trust this lunchtime. Is uncertainty a consequence of doubt?
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S45E6 Opportunity and uncertainty
Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and thinking about whether uncertainty is always a negative thing, thanks to a prompt from Sam.
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S45E5 Stay in uncertainty
I very much enjoyed Heather Havrilesky’s latest ‘Ask Polly’ column about remaining in uncertainty, and recommend it whole-heartedly to you. I’ve published it…
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S45E4 Uncertainty and joy
Considering whether uncertainty might be a necessary precondition for joy as I walk round the park behind the hospital in South West London this lunchtime.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S45E3 Uncertainty and grind
Pounding my local streets thinking about navigating a decade of ‘getting good’ at our craft.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S45E2 Uncertainty is everywhere
Walking around the park behind the hospital and considering the yhoughts of Warren Buffet who said that uncertainty is everywhere.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S45E1 Uncertainty and leadership
Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about uncertainty and leadership this lunchtime. Welcome to Series 45.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E10 Constancy and breakthrough
Making commitments and re-committing regularly to them can be incredibly powerful and give us extra headspace to think beyond how to get from one end of the…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E9 Constancy - keeping things interesting
How can we enjoy the same walk over and over again, particularly when it’s grey, mis and raining? Some thoughts on constancy in difficult circumstances.
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S44E8 Constancy and other people
People can be tricky to know, love and work with. On today’s episode, as I walk around my local streets, I consider whether one of the challenges to constancy…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E7 Constancy and proactivity
To do the things we want to do, we must work out what our priorities are and carve out space for our most important work. Not just once, but repeatedly. Today…
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S44E6 Constancy and Iteration
Walking around the park behind the hospital and thinking about constancy and iteration
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
Bonus episode - tales from the allotment shed
A bonus edition from my allotment in South West London. Using the Merlin app to identify the birds
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E5 Constancy and the lunchbreak
So few of us get away from our desks at lunchtime in the UK. What might be possible if we reinstated the lunchbreak?
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E4 Constancy and emotions
The biggest obstacles to recommitting to the same things and people are our emotions. A rainy and weary episode from the park behind the hospital.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E3 Constancy and Nature
Walking around the park behind the hospital and thinking about constancy in nature—the daily rising of the sun, the seasonal cycles of trees, the weather and…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E2 Constancy and Flow
The flow researcher whose name I couldn’t remember is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pron: Mi-hi Chick-sent-mi-hi) in this episode of Walk the Pod: 10 minute…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S44E1 Constancy - the antithesis of grind culture
Welcome to Series 44 in which we’ll be discussing constancy. What does constancy mean, is the the same as consistency? Is it grind? Absolutely not.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
Bonus episode: birdsong at the allotment
Allotment update recorded in the shed at 14b Paddocks Allotments, in South West London.
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
Feb 15, 2024 test recording
A test recording, just to see whether I can record a podcast episode via PodBean instead of Spotify. To be deleted!
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
New series announcement
Announcing the new series 44 topic for your daily walking podcast - Constancy. --- Send in a voice message…
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S43E8 The Joy of Walking
The joy of walking. Thank you for walking with me this series, I’ll be back in February with Series 44. Become a Paid Subscriber…
- Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking
S43E7 Joy and nature
Why does nature spark joy? Become a Paid Subscriber: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/subscribe"…
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S43E6 Joy is uncool
Remembering my favourite gif, and reflecting that joy is deeply uncool. Become a Paid Subscriber: <a…
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S43E5 Joy and service
The paradigmatic idea that joy can be derived from service, from Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore. Become a Paid Subscriber: <a…
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S43E4 Joy is fleeting
Blink and you’ll miss it! Joy is moving because it is rare, or brief, or unusual at this time of year, or all three. Become a Paid Subscriber: <a…
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S43E3 Joy - an act of resistance
Joy is an act of resistance! Become a Paid Subscriber: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/subscribe"…
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S43E2 Joy and gratitude
Devour your nice things! Become a Paid Subscriber: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/subscribe"…
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S43E1 Joy!
The exclamation point of the human experience. What does joy mean to you? Become a Paid Subscriber: <a…
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S42E10 Life, the Universe, and Everything: Radical Self Trust and Going on
Radical Self Trust and Going on --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E9 Life, the Universe, and Everything: Abundance
Abundance! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E8 Life, the Universe, and Everything: the Nemesis List
The nemesis list!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E7 Life, the Universe, and Everything Pay attention to what’s directly in front of you
Paying attention to what’s directly in front of you this GratiTuesday --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E6 Life, the Universe, and Everything: Prioritisation and boundaries
Prioritisation and boundaries. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E5 Life, the Universe and Everything: Have Fun
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S42E4 Life, the Universe and Everything: What if this were the last day?
We have only today! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E3 Life, the Universe, and Everything: This too shall pass
This too shall pass. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S42E2 Life, the Universe and Everything: Unconditional Positive Regard
Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about unconditional positive regard this lunchtime plus a note from Gaynor and Tati and Pippin the dog…
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S42E1 Life, the Universe and Everything: Ego vs insignificance
Your daily walking show on Ego vs insignificance. Episode 1 of Series 42: Life, the Universe and Everything. --- Send in a voice message…
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S41E10 Burnout roundup
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S41E9 Burnout busters!
How to avoid burnout. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message
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S41E8 The difference between stress and burnout
Walking around local streets and considering the difference between stress and burnout. --- Send in a voice message…
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S41E7 Burnout - there is only one you
There is only one you --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkthepod/message