
The OptimalWork Podcast
Hosted by Sharif and Kevin Majeres and Kevin · OptimalWork
4.9from 727 ratings
- 319
- Episodes
- 139
- Transcribed
- 727
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About The OptimalWork Podcast
Hosted by Dr. Kevin Majeres and Sharif Younes, co-founders of OptimalWork, The OptimalWork Podcast will help you learn to challenge yourself in each hour of work according to your highest ideals. We discuss all aspects of Dr. Majeres's approach to work, which he developed in his private practice and teaches at Harvard Medical School, and show how it applies to everyday situations like professional work, study, sleep, and relationships. For personalized plans to help you put the ideas into practice, visit www.OptimalWork.com. Please send questions for discussion to team@optimalwork.com.
- Publisher
- OptimalWork
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
139 of 319 episodes have a transcript.

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322. How to Actually Follow Through on Your Plans

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320. How to Want to Do the Hard Thing
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322. How to Actually Follow Through on Your Plans
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's something that you give to yourself. It's a command that reason gives to the will to actually do the thing. So command is launching into the plan with the end in mind, then working step by step through it, navigating obstacles until the action is complete. So command is how intelligence actually enters into our actions and perfects them. So it's where prudence actually produces every ideal within us. So command is, you could say, the lever. It's what shapes our character for the better. And this is an amazing feature about command, that it leads to actions that surpass our own habits. That's an amazing thing. […]
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Sharif and Kevin Majeres and Kevin host the show. Published by OptimalWork.
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