This episode title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it's a good reminder that it is okay (and necessary) to rest. This week, I talk about the need for rest as the year wind's down (ugh, don't remind me that 2023 is just around the corner!) and how our prior learning knowledge can create self-beliefs that prevent us from taking the rest that we need. I draw from Susan A. Ambrose et al.'s work on prior learning knowledge in How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. I close the episode with a few reflection questions about our own prior learning knowledge about rest and work and what we might do to teach ourselves that it is okay to rest. 

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Do you know that everytime you are mildly (or greatly) annoyed with your office or workspace, you waste cognitive and emotional energy? I've been trying to force myself into loving working in my on-campus office, and I just ..... can't. And I'm envious of folks who can. But forcing myself to try to be productive and motivated in a space that doesn't do it for me is actually causing me a huge energy leak. "Energy leaks" are the ways in which our cognitive, emotional, and intellectual energy dissipates leaving us tired, frustrated, unfocused, and/or resentful. (And maybe many other emotions.) In this episode, I get honest about my office and workplace energy leaks and what I've been doing to stop the leak. 

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This week I explore Agota Kun and Peter Gadanecz's 2022 article "Workplace happiness, well-being and their relationship with psychological capital: A study of Hungarian Teachers." Kun and Gadanecz provide a really nice overview of the scholarship on workplace happiness and well-being, as well as the necessary components to ensuring employees' happiness, so I highly recommend you all to read their literature review. Ever with the goal of finding ways forward and strategies that work, I share my own understanding of workplace happiness and offer listeners several strategies for finding (or refining their search for) workplace happiness within academia.