Laurence Shorter

The Enlightened Overachiever

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The Enlightened Overachiever is a conversation about creativity and leadership — and how to make good things happen in the world. I’m Laurence Shorter: author, thinker, and leadership coach. My work is about joining the dots between our inner worlds — the thoughts and feelings we live with every day — and the realities we shape together, at work and beyond. My guests include entrepreneurs, artists, teachers, and thinkers. Together, we explore what it means to be a person in the world at this moment in history — with a brain, a heart, ideas and ambitions. Where are we going, how will we get the...

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Laurence Shorter

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On Being Neighbourly and Seeing Reality as It Is — with Robert Rowland Smith 22.01.2026 1:02:08

What does it mean to see the world clearly as it is? Why do simple narratives make it so hard for us to achieve that, and to live well together? In this wide-ranging conversation with philosopher, author, and constellator Robert Rowland Smith we explore what it means to face reality without rushing to solutions, explanations or positions. Drawing on a life immersed in academia, business, systemic...

The Disengaged Teen meets the Enlightened Overachiever - with Jenny Anderson 22.01.2026 1:10:33

This episode is apparently about teenagers, but it's also about the adult world we inhabit and create every day. We all started as a bored or engaged kids at school, and these learning identities live on in the careers and lives we build for ourselves as grown ups. Jenny Anderson is an award-winning journalist, former New York Times reporter, and co-author of The Disengaged Teen . Underpinn...

Three Good Hours a Day | Oliver Burkeman on Life, Limits and Letting Go 22.01.2026 1:16:04

Oliver Burkeman has a brutal but liberating message - you will never do it all. Accept that and the real work can begin. In this expansive chat, Oliver (journalist and author of Four Thousand Weeks , Meditations for Mortals , The Imperfectionist ), joins me to explore the counterintuitive truth at the heart of modern life: that embracing limits is the gateway to living well. We talk about insecure...