I listen to motivational recordings regularly.

Forty minutes of commute is forty minutes of something. It gets filled either way, by a podcast, by news that raises your pulse, or by a voice pointed somewhere useful.

Recordings work best as company rather than instruction. Nobody's life turned around at minute eighteen of an audio programme. But hearing a thing said for the fourth time is often when it finally lands.

The listening isn't the work. It's the scaffolding around the work, and kept regular it makes the doing feel less lonely.