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πŸ“˜ 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.

Maria & Rory

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This episode’s vocabulary

Monk

noun β€” a member of a group of religious men who do not marry and usually live together in a monastery.

Essential

adj. β€” necessary or needed.

Routine

noun β€” a usual or fixed way of doing things.

Priority

noun β€” something that is very important and must be dealt with before other things.

Deprioritize

verb β€” reduce the level of priority.

Ultimately

adverb β€” finally; in the end.

Complexity

noun β€” the state of having many parts and being difficult to understand or find an answer to.

Reinforcement

noun β€” the act of making something stronger.

Praise

noun β€” things that you say that express your admiration and approval of someone or something.

Admittedly

adverb β€” used when you are agreeing that something is true, especially unwillingly.

Competency

noun β€” possession of sufficient knowledge or skill.

Intuition

noun β€” an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts.

Articulate

verb β€” to express in words.

Daunting

adj. β€” making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something.

Contrast

noun β€” an obvious difference between two or more things.

Societal

adj. β€” relating to or involving society.

Decompress

verb β€” to relax.

Self-actualization

noun β€” a person's desire to use all their abilities to achieve and be everything that they possibly can.

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