BEST OF: Rahul Vohra on why the key to productivity is to stop touching your mouse

***JOIN AMANTHA IN A LIVE TAPING OF HOW I WORK***

I'm going to be doing a live taping of How I work at the Melbourne Podcast Festival on Saturday July 31 at 2.30pm.

http://melbournepodcastfestival.com/podcast/how-i-work/

For this very special live taping, Amantha will be speaking to Christian O'Connell. Christian was Britain’s best known and most awarded breakfast radio presenter, hosting his own top rating national breakfast shows and collecting more industry awards than any other presenter and becoming the youngest radio presenter ever inducted into the UK Radio Hall of Fame. And then he moved out to Australia where no one knew him. Australian Radio Network took a punt on bringing him to Melbourne’s Gold FM – a move that has paid dividends.

In this interview, we will be exploring:

• what goes on behind the scenes of breakfast radio
• Christian's strategies for overcoming mental health challenges that plagued him in the competitive world of commercial radio
• how Christian finds ideas and inspiration to fill three hours of live radio every single day
• why Christian once wore a death watch, which reminded him how much longer he had to live
• the biggest things he learnt from being in therapy for several years
• how he prepares for interviews with some of the world's biggest celebrities
• how he picked himself up after dismal ratings when he first started on GOLD FM
• And much, much more.

Book your tickets here: http://melbournepodcastfestival.com/podcast/how-i-work/

In today's BEST OF episode, my guest is Rahul Vohra. Rahul is the founder and CEO of Superhuman, the fastest email experience in the world. Users get through their inbox twice as fast — and many see Inbox Zero for the first time in years! Previously, he founded Rapportive, the first Gmail plugin to scale to millions of users. Rapportive was acquired by LinkedIn.

In our chat, we cover:

• Rahul’s approach to becoming as efficient as possible with the software he uses
• Rahul’s email workflow
• How Rahul divides his inbox into different sections to help him prioritise his day
• Why Rahul only checks email twice a day
• Why Rahul never checks his email on the weekend
• How Rahul uses automation to reduce time in his inbox
• Why learning the keyboard shortcuts in software is critical to productivity
• How Rahul designed the most joyful software induction process I have ever experienced
• How Rahul batches and staggers his meetings
• Rahul’s method for time tracking and how he uses the data
• Rahul’s method for running effective meetings at Superhuman
• How to create a great pitch
• Rahul's favourite software for being more productive
• Rahul’s favourite new software

Connect with Rahul at rahul@superhuman.com and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/rahulvohra?lang=en)

Check out Superhuman at: https://superhuman.com/ and enter How I Work podcast for how you found out about Superhuman.

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