Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life · 2026-08-03 · 54 min · 8,804 words

Creativity: How Rest, Wonder, and AI Redefine Productivity with Natalie Nixon

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And welcome back to Beyond the To-do List, a podcast about productivity. I'm your host, Eric Fisher. My guest today has spent two decades as what she calls the creative whisperer to the C suite, and One of the first things she'll tell a room floor execu of executives is that some of their most important work Looks a whole lot like staring out the window, so

She's got two books out that are really one argument that productivity was never the point. And that the way that you do your best thinking is by moving Thinking and resting. Natalie Nixon, welcome to the show. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much, Eric. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. You're welcome.

So uh the new book is the second edition of the creativity leap and It's got a brand new chapter on working alongside AI. I'm very excited to talk about that. And that's where I want to end up, but I don't want to skip past the book right before it. Move, think, rest, because Between the two of them, you've basically drawn what I look at as like a map.

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