Protecting your time with Linda Babcock

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  Linda, I have to ask you, are you a people pleaser?

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  I would say that I used to be.

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  before I started on this big research project about saying no and really realized how much of it was about me trying to make sure other people liked me.

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  And so once I started on this journey, on this project,

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  I really learned if I was going to make any progress, I was going to have to stop doing that.

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  Hey, it's Adam Grant.

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  We're doing something different this season of Work Life, my podcast with Ted.

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  I'm still an organizational psychologist, and I still study how to make work not suck.

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  But this season, we're pairing each of our regular episodes with a companion interview.

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  It might be with an expert, a practitioner,

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  or someone unexpected who can add a different perspective to our episode and build on and challenge what we said.

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  Today is our companion interview for the episode on how to say no. And who better to call on than Linda Babcock,

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  Professor Emerita of Economics at Carnegie Mellon.

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  and co-author of The No Club.

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  It's a club of people who help each other say no. So one day I was in my office at Carnegie Mellon,

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