How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. 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. Rodha Modgill. 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 time different time zones. How do we kind of find our boundaries and how do we stop or reduce the feeling of overwhelm from work? Yeah, and I think definitely tech has made it harder when it comes to work because and 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 um home and work uh can start to blur. And uh from the research that started being done when people started working from home during the pandemic, um

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