What you'll learn:

Brigid is the director of the Better Life Lab and The Good Life Initiative.
She was a staff writer at the Washington Post
She has also written a NY Times best seller called "Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time"
The Better Life Lab was formed after Brigid researched her book and found three major areas of life that contribute to life feeling overwhelming.
She started the lab to look into these areas; work, gender equality and social policy.
She also helped develop the Better Work Tool Kit with a partner non-profit that researches human psychology.
Together they look at what drives overworking and design solutions to solve these problems.
We think overworking is solved with willpower and just concentrating and pushing through will help, but this has been disproven.
To aid willpower we need to create a system that makes selecting the right choice easy.
The tool kit can help you change individually, as part of a team or organization-wide help.
Helping combat overwork in organization is a stealth feminist agenda because men are able to overwork more than women and this contributes to the pay gap.
A key goal for Brigid is getting paid-leave for men and women after having a baby across the country.
Men are as equally wired as women to be maternal but due to maternity leave men don’t spend as much time with the baby in order to bond.
Flexibility in work has reduced the ability to switch off at home, because emails can now be done anywhere.
We need to switch off because our best ideas come when the brain is in a diffuse state, for example on a walk or in the bath.