Blog Archive
SubscribeFake Toughness Versus the Real Thing
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Fake toughness is easy to spot. It’s the guy picking a fight at your local gym. The anonymous poster acting like a hard ass on message boards. The bully…
For a Good Life, Think Boundaries Not Balance
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Balance is a questionable goal at best. After years of reporting, I’ve found that the majority of people report being happiest and most fulfilled during times when they were unbalanced, giving their all…
Burnout Runs Deeper Than “Too Much Work”
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Burnout — a state of physical and emotional exhaustion often followed by apathy and illness — is ubiquitous across industries. Physicians, businesspeople, artists, teachers, and athletes all have high rates…
Do You Define Success in the Same Way as Your Team?
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When watching a performance from the sideline, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. You see an athlete win a race or stir the crowd with a rousing…
Choosing Lazy over Busy
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I’m very lazy. We all are. Evolutionary biologist Dr. Dan Lieberman made the case that we evolved to be lazy. As he concluded in a journal article, “while humans are…
An Updated Toolkit to Address Burnout
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The World Health Organization recently named burnout as an international health concern, complete with and ICD-11 code, which is one of the predominant ways medical providers diagnose, chart, and bill…