"I am not a person who was ever interested in work culture previously," he says. "But then work relates to everything, and I really started reading about the history of work as I started researching for my burnout book" It's fascinating how American civilization is structured by the way that we conceive of work,. The way we compensate it, the way who is what type of work we're expected to do."
What does "burnout" even mean anymore? If you're asking yourself this question, you've come to the right podcast. Anne Helen Petersen is the writer who helped popularize the term and she thinks people are missing the big picture. In this episode, Anne Helen and Chris discuss the structures that are leading so many people, from nurses to teachers to office workers, to suffer from chronic, work-related stress. Then, Anne Helen suggests some of the ways that we can rethink our relationship to work – and offers practices that could protect us from laboring past our limits. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts