2026-01-23
39 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti.
For this episode,
we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with psychologist and broadcaster Claudia Hammond.
Hammond joined us recently at the Kiln Theatre to share practical strategies from her new book,
Overwhelmed,
from tackling procrastination and imposter syndrome to loosening the grip of perfectionism and finding ways to live well in a world that often feels relentless.
She was in conversation with Dr.
Radha Modgo.
If you haven't heard part one, we recommend jumping back an episode to get up to speed.
But now let's return to the discussion live from the Kiln Theatre in London.
I want to move on I suppose now to one area I think of everyone's life which always feels overwhelming but possibly even more so now it's the way we work and you know more people working from home you know work going on 24 hours a day people working across different time zones and how do we kind of find our boundaries and how do we stop or reduce the feeling of overwhelm from work.
And I think definitely tech has made it harder when it comes to work because,
and obviously lots of people work from home now, some of the time at least, or maybe all the time.
And those boundaries between home and work can start to blur.
And from the research that started being done when people started working from home during the pandemic,
people were often inclined to,
it shows that to carry on working because there was no why stop at a particular moment,
at least if you've got your journey home and the end you've got to go.
out in the rain and get that train and get home and so it a kind of can force you to stop whereas