Burnout

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I know a lot of people who have failed to cultivate or to sustain close friendships are have no feeling of community around them. And then also I think talking with your manager too, because oftentimes we put expectations on ourselves in terms of availability that our managers do not actually place on us. So those are like kind of the basic things. But then the next thing too is figuring out who am I besides my job?"

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