burnout by the way is a myth
burnout we've been declared a legitimate
medical diagnosis by the world health
organization we're seeing a lot of
anecdotal evidence of rising stress
burnout and unmanageable kinds of
schedules for people
in a recent study by gallup more than
two-thirds of employees say that they
were feeling exhausted but how do we
truly prevent burnout it is a mental
identity that doesn't exist in the
world's top performers work work we're
clanging and banging we call it but like
what time do you go to bed i mean you
need to work super hard when you
structure your company right burnout
becomes something that doesn't exist and
your top people become immune to stress
anxiety and overwhelm but it has to do
with the science of transformation you
see a surprising study showed that
stress is a mental construct the
researchers estimated that over the
eight years they were tracking deaths
182 000 americans died prematurely not
from stress but from the belief that
stress is bad for you
in other words people who believe that
stress is bad for their health when they
face instances of stress they actually
see a health deterioration but people
who believe that stress is good for
their health when they go through stress
it's actually
a feeling more akin to passion or
excitement or drive and it doesn't
affect their health what is the
difference it has to do with what mba
professor srikumar rao calls one's
mental model when you have a mental
model that says that burnout dare not
touch you that stress doesn't influence
you you're able to go through the same
challenges as someone who is highly
stressed without feeling any momentum
slow down without any adverse effects on
your body but it has to do with your
identity and how you see the world most
people simply aren't trained to perceive
the world in this way and most companies
pay zero attention to their employees
mental models rather they believe in
combating stress through process
productivity consultants and other
physical tools that ultimately will be
useless unless you change what's going
on in here in the first place so if you
want to learn how to make people
completely immune to stress to anxiety
to overwhelm to look at everything from
neurobiology to neuroscience to beliefs
and to aspects of human performance that
relate to connection
empathy feeling and high performance
check out mindvalley you can learn more
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