How Atomic Habits can make your writing life easier

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Jason has Novid now, but he dragged himself to the mic. Inger’s
been sick again and, honestly - the first 20 minutes or so of
this podcast is just ‘old people complaining about their health’
(but we know some of you really like that stuff, so we left it
in). Katherine Firth rings in (18m:17s) to give Jason another
romance novel recommendation for the upcoming On the Reg
competitive reading cage death match.


In our work problems segment (25m:43s) the team leverage the
advice offered by James Clear in his book ‘Atomic habits’ and
apply it to helping you write more productively. They are using a
teaching slide deck which Inger made, so if you want to read
along with the segment you can access the slide deck here. 


Jason has been reading up for a forthcoming episode on
stakeholder engagement (1h:22m). Meanwhile, despite being sick
Inger has been reading ALL the books, but really quickly: just so
she can add them to the bibliography in her book. Finally, in two
minute tips (1hr:32m) Jason suggests a new app which Inger thinks
sounds very handy. Inger’s tip involves compares skim reading to
smoking Weed... Not that the team have ever done that.
Ever.

Finally, the sound on this one is GREAT - Inger finally
implemented all the tips suggested by Martin Emo last time and is
amazed by what a towel on a desk can do! Thanks Martin! Thanks to
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Links to stuff we mentioned in the Pod


Books we discussed in our work segment:


Atomic Habits: the easy and proven way to build good habits and
break bad ones by James Clear


Link to the slide deck that we used to structure this discussion,
where Inger has notes on how to apply the lessons in Atomic
habits to your writing.


Writing without teachers Peter Elbow


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