The Importance of Being the Best

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TEDx talk on work is not your family was one of the most viewed talks of the past year. "I think a lot of times for our overachievers that tend to burn out alone and tend to tie ourselves too much to work, there are big aspects of our upbringing where we learned that being the best was safe," she says. For people who came from biological or blood family structures that were healthier and had healthier dynamics, I think that means in work.

For some of us it’s easy to lose ourselves in our work. But a lack of boundaries between your personal and work life is something mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer would warn you twice about. Gloria speaks about the perils of gaining your sense of self-worth from your job, discusses her experience with burnout and stress and shares empowering insights on how to shift our perspectives to create – and maintain – a healthy distance. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts