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6 Incredible TED Talks About Time Management
Find inspiration from TED Talks? Read six short summaries on time management-focused TED talks to find multiple tips on how to most effectively organize your lifestyle.
How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED
Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can "build the lives we want in the time we've got.
How to improve your time management skills
Effective time management is challenging enough, but even more so in the medical world. Read these five strategies to help you more effectively manage your time as a physician.
How to make work-life balance work
Speaker Nigel Marsh advises the importance of finding the best way to balance life, family, work, and personal time.
How to make work-life balance work
Listen to Nigel Marsh educate about the impeding importance of work-life balance, and how to actually make it happen.
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator by Tim Urban
In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window — and encourages us to think harder about what we're really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.
Near-Death Experience Leads Physician to Promote Empathy
Dr. Rana L.A. Awdish's near-death experience due to an occult adenoma rupturing in her liver gave her a brand new perspective based on the lack of empathy she received as a patient. Her experience as a patient totally changed the way she practices, cares and treats her patients and she realized the vital importance of incorporating empathy in the medical field.
Resident Physician Wellness: A New Hope
This article highlights the salient causes of burnout as it applies to present-day resident physicians and the patient care they provide. Moreover, in the wake of the controversy surrounding duty hours reform, a novel approach to resident wellness involving structured resident wellness programs is discussed.
Time
We live our lives at human speed, we experience and interact with the world on a human time scale. In this episode, we have the opportunity to consider the ways we conceive of the intersection between time and speed on a physical and metaphysical level.
Time in the bank: A Stanford plan to save doctors from burnout
In order to decrease physician burnout, Stanford hospital's "time banking" program helps physicians achieve better life-balance by rewarding certain behaviors (mentoring, shift covering, etc.) for credit to buy certain home/life services (home-cooked meals, cleaning, etc.).
Time Management: How to Write a To-Do List & Know Where Your Time Goes
This TED Ed offers time-management advice and interactive, personalized organisation strategies to help you more effectively organize your tasks, goals and projects.
Work Life Balance – the #1 Life Balance Skill and the Power of “NO”
How to create a "life" calendar along with your "work" calendar – strategies in balancing the importance of both.
Work-Life “Balance” Isn’t the Point
This article emphasizes work-life "effectiveness" over work-life "balance," pointing out that finding a compatible relationship between the two is the optimal solution versus practicing separation and division.
Working overtime? At Stanford, physicians bank the time for later.
Doctors have plenty of money, but zero time—so Stanford started paying them in hours instead of dollars. How might outsourcing the 'second shift' save us all from burnout?
