Dr. Kyra Gaunt

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113 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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Life Kit · Find your side quest · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And I'm like, a lot of people are living in perfectly bad planes and won't jump out.

I mean, when do you sit and tell a joke at work?

I'm in academia.

We only take our head to different meetings.

There's no play involved generally and there's a list of things and it's all about serious and earnestness and

And you go home and then you vent about it and you get up and do it again.

So side quests are really important given that we're living in a time where a lot of stress comes from social media.

People aren't trained to have good social skills, social hygiene at work.

I feel like that's why I listen to NPR because it makes me laugh.

But at work, it's not like my experience of listening to my favorite shows on radio.

It's a burden.

Absolutely.

Yeah, it doesn't have to be an activity or an event.

A side quest can be a mindfulness practice of, I had a student once, I taught a political sociology class and I said, you have to change one habit.

One habit.

And she had a four-year-old daughter and she worked overnight.

And I consider this a side quest.

Other people might not, but I think it has the same impact that a side quest is.

She said, I just want to be present in the morning when my daughter wakes me up at 8 a.m.

And she said it changed her life that semester.

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