This is Quick: How Hello Monday host Jessi Hempel turns ideas into actions
Nov 2, 2023
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Jessi Hempel, LinkedIn Senior Editor-at-Large and host of Hello Monday, shares insights on work, finding passion, productivity habits, following curiosities, and career advice in this quick episode. She emphasizes the importance of exploration and starting without perfection, while discussing morning pages, mentorship, and one-on-one meetings.
Finding work that is worthy of our future selves is crucial for career fulfillment.
Engaging in morning pages, a form of writing three pages every morning, can help track thoughts, explore deeper questions, and unlock creativity.
Deep dives
Key Point 1: Discovering Purposeful Work
Jesse Hemple, host of the Hello Monday podcast, shares that she always carries a necklace with the initials of her children as a reminder of her purpose. She emphasizes the need to find work that is worthy of our future selves. Jesse's journey towards her career as a writer began when she won an essay contest in the third grade. She advises those still figuring out their career path to simply get started, as discovery often comes through experiential processes. Hello Monday explores how people find and change their career paths, as it is rare to do the same thing for one's entire career.
Key Point 2: Productivity and Morning Pages
One habit that helps Jesse Hemple stay productive is engaging in morning pages. Every morning, before her children wake up, she sets aside time to write three pages without going back to review them. The focus is on working through her thoughts and getting to the bottom of her ideas. During this process, she believes it's not necessary to get caught up in specific terminology like 'journaling,' but rather to emphasize the act of writing itself. Morning pages serve as a way to track thoughts, explore deeper questions, and unlock creativity.
Key Point 3: Embracing Evolution and Curiosity
Reflecting on her experience hosting Hello Monday, Jesse Hemple realized that getting started is more important than trying to have everything perfect from the beginning. She advocates for embracing the evolution of our work as the audience engages with it. Lack of sleep and neglecting personal needs like eating breakfast or reading enough can derail productivity. Jesse attributes her success to following her own curiosities rather than trying to emulate others. She encourages individuals seeking mentorship to come prepared with a clear outcome in mind and follow through on agreed-upon actions.
This week, Jessi Hempel, LinkedIn Senior Editor-at-Large and host of LinkedIn's award-winning flagship podcast, Hello Monday, sits in the hot seat for a round of rapid-fire questions about how she works.
Jessi shares the motivating piece of jewelry she's always wearing, what she gained when she learned to bring her own perspective to her writing, and what one morning routine is the key to better work and deeper meaning.
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