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Do Pause

Self-help

Robert Poynton

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You are not a To Do list.

Machines are designed to run constantly; people aren’t. Our coping mechanisms are meditation apps, weekend breaks and annual holidays, but things soon revert. To prosper, we need a more sustainable approach, an ability to pause.

Do Pause looks at the importance of this subtle yet powerful idea across communication, creativity, relationships, as well as our wellbeing and sanity. With practical tools to help you create new habits or make more significant lifestyle choices, you’ll discover how to:

  • Reset and regenerate
  • Deepen your thinking and experiences
  • Take back control of your time
  • Reconnect with other people, and yourself

From taking a breath to taking a sabbatical, a pause can be many things. And the good news is, even just a small pause can make a real and lasting difference.

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Robert Poynton

Robert Poynton is an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. His work there is practical not academic: he designs and runs executive education programmes, helping senior leaders understand and work with complex change via a playful approach drawn from the methodology of improvisational theatre. His own clients include the BBC, Chanel, Merck and Unilever. He is the author of Do Pause: You are not a To Do list (2019) and Do Conversation: There's no such thing as small talk (2024). And the founder of Yellow, an online learning experience designed in response to the participants rather than a pre-determined curriculum. He has been a contributor to The Skoll World Forum and Singularity University Global Summit. He has led courses on leadership, change and complexity at the IE Business School in Madrid, Ashridge Business School and Schumacher College. He is married with three grown up sons and divides his time between Oxford and an off-grid house in rural Spain. https://thedobook.co/products/do-improvise-less-push-more-pause-better-results-a-new-approach-to-work-and-life

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