{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 349: Updating Your Default Settings With Work Brighter Founder Brittany Berger","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3047,"description":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn This Episode:\n\n\n\n* How Work Brighter founder Brittany Berger leverages her unique strengths to create a custom approach to productivity and structure* Why she tracks her mood and energy to make her working time more effective* How she’s reimagined traditional productivity “rules” through the lens of neurodivergence and chronic illness* How her obsession with pop culture has become a strength for creating compelling content\n\n\n\nHow do you operate in a world that’s not designed for you?\n\n\n\nHow do you make sense of instructions that weren’t written for you?\n\n\n\nHow do you navigate expectations that weren’t set with you in mind?\n\n\n\nThese are big, personal questions and, thankfully, we’ve started taking a look at the answers at a cultural level and not just at the individual level.\n\n\n\nBut until we see some serious change to a culture that privileges white, male, thin, neurotypical, heterosexual, cisgendered, hierarchal, and non-disabled ways of living, we’ve got some adapting to do.\n\n\n\nIt’s easy to think that these adaptations are a constraint. A limitation of what’s possible.\n\n\n\nAnd honestly, sometimes they are.\n\n\n\nBut often, these adaptations are leveraged as strengths.\n\n\n\nTruthfully, I didn’t think these questions belonged to me for a long time. I thought I’d been gifted with talent, intelligence, and at least a bit of charisma and that I really should be able to make it all work pretty easily.\n\n\n\nIt wasn’t until I ran straight into a wall of burnout after college that I started to question whether that was really true.\n\n\n\nIt’s been 16 years since I hit that wall. Since I sat on my professor’s couch and cried that I just didn’t know if grad school was the next step for me. Since my mom took the truck up to Syracuse to move down the furniture we’d already moved into my grad school apartment.\n\n\n\nAnd over those 16 years, I’ve tried to fix myself. I’ve tried to become the kind of person who operates in this world naturally, who follows the instructions to a T,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}