Productive Flourishing
Esmé Wang: Keeping Momentum While Living with Disability (Episode 244)
This week, New York Times bestselling author and ess...
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Aug 18 2022 54m
Chapter 1 27 sec
When you’re a creator and dealing with disabilities and chronic illness, one of the things you have to accept is that your plans don’t always work out the way you want them to, because life happensChapter 2 8 mins
Esmé talks about growing up as a professional writer with immigrant parents from Taiwan who put a very high emphasis on attending an Ivy League school and productivityChapter 3 1 min
One of the problems of living a creative life and unconventional path is that the normal markers people would use for success may not be thereChapter 4 4 mins
Esmé’s first book was rejected 41 times before it was picked up by a publisher. She talks about how luck plays a role in successChapter 5 3 mins
We all have the same hours in a day as Beyonce, but definitely not the same level of support!Chapter 6 4 mins
Esmé discusses her own dealing with illness as a person that put high importance on output and productivityChapter 7 2 mins
How can people with chronic illness and disability reframe the way they look at productivity and time management in a way that doesn’t lead to frustration and disappointment?Chapter 8 7 mins
Culture and our capitalistic society are obsessed with productivityChapter 9 3 mins
Able-bodied people often don’t realize how much it takes for someone with a disability or chronic illness to do the things they view as “normal” or easyChapter 10 3 mins
How the Momentum App can helpChapter 11 11 mins
How we can better communicate with the people in our lives when we need a break or are running out of energyChapter 12 1 min
Challenge: write down EVERYTHING you do in a day. Everything. You are doing way more than you think you are