If you're feeling the symptoms of burnout, what are some practical things that they can do to get themselves back to a place where they're feeling stable? Well, I think the first thing is to figure out whether you burn out the primary source of it. Is this feeling of financial precarity? Right? And if that's the case, is there a change that you can make in your life?
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