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A Productive Conversation · 2026-06-19 · 42 min · 7,319 words

The Art of Pacing: Why Slowing Down Is a Long Game Strategy (with Elizabeth Svoboda)

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Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productivess. And Mike Vardy.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay.

In we go. Mike. Thanks so much for being here today. Oh, thank you so much for having me. I've been so looking forward to this discussion and seeing where it goes. Awesome. Well thank again.

I have it on my iPad here, so it's the art of pacing. And this is not a book that you should rush through either. Wanna be very very particular about that. I wanna first get into um

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