📘 Part 3: Time
Is relaxing a waste of time? Rory challenges Maria's assumptions on productivity, revealing why even high-powered CEOs need to decompress and the surprising mistakes young people make with their schedules.
This episode's vocabulary
Monk (noun) - a member of a group of religious men who do not marry and usually live together in a monastery.
Essential (adj.) - necessary or needed.
Routine (noun) - a usual or fixed way of doing things.
Priority (noun) - something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things.
Deprioritize (verb) - reduce the level of priority.
Ultimately (adverb) - finally; in the end.
Complexity (noun) - the state of having many parts and being difficult to understand or find an answer to.
Reinforcement (noun) - the act of making something stronger.
Praise (noun) - things that you say that express your admiration and approval of someone or something.
Admittedly (adverb) - used when you are agreeing that something is true, especially unwillingly.
Competency (noun) - possession of sufficient knowledge or skill.
Intuition (noun) - an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts.
Articulate (verb) - to express in words.
Daunting (adj.) - making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something.
Contrast (noun) - an obvious difference between two or more things.
Societal (adj.) - relating to or involving society.
Decompress (verb) - to relax.
Self-actualization (noun) - a person's desire to use all their abilities to achieve and be everything that they possibly can.
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