How to Avoid Burnout | Dr. Cal Newport & Dr. Andrew Huberman

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Dr. Cal Newport and Dr. Andrew Huberman discuss the root causes of burnout, highlighting how modern work practices, such as the constant checking of emails and continuous involvement in meetings, resulting in less time for meaningful work, contribute to the feeling of exhaustion and disengagement.
Cal Newport, Ph.D. (@CalNewportMedia) is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and bestselling author of numerous books on focus and productivity and how to access the deepest possible layers of your cognitive abilities in order to do quality work and lead a more balanced life. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast.
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Timestamps
00:00 Exploring Burnout: Definitions and Personal Insights
00:15 The Poetic Perspective on Burnout and Wholeheartedness
00:44 Diagnosing Burnout in Knowledge Work: Quantity vs. Quality of Work
01:04 The Administrative Overhead: A Major Contributor to Burnout
01:49 The Psychological Impact of Modern Work Practices
02:40 The Absurdity of Current Work Culture and Its Effects
04:11 The Role of Digital Communication in Workplace Burnout
07:28 Cultural and Organizational Shifts Needed for Change
08:42 Envisioning the Cognitive Revolution in Knowledge Work
11:15 Concluding Thoughts and Invitation to Watch Full Episode
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 47

@Aristophocles 24 дні тому

This sounds like the life of a teacher. We don't need meetings about our job. We just need time to do our job!

@Bigboss-xe6lm 16 днів тому

They took our time! And our minds

@al3xj День тому

Great to hear you both speak on this in such articulate detail - the hardest part for me is being in this place and seeing outside of it, the deconstruct what is actually happening enough to solve it - then having enough bandwidth remaining to execute the solution - Interestingly this last few weeks, I took time out, while still delivering operational priorities, to solve my personal problem, and I did, only to find my boss was unhappy and didn't understand why I took the time out to solve it - he himself couldn't see it clearly enough to understand why it was needed

@martine5716 21 день тому

If you work in human or veterinary healthcare ,as I did, there is a whole different level of burnout happening! You can add secondary trauma stress and compassion fatigue to and already high stress workplace. You're dealing with emergencies, death, and others stress, grief, and emotional reactivenesss. You can't just walk out of a surgery or leave a patient when it's time to go home. By the time you do finally get home you have no emotional bandwidth left for yourself let alone your loved ones. We lose too many to suicide because of this.

@misteress8008 24 дні тому

Yessir. Huberman, right in the beginning- you need to work for something bigger than money. Wholeheartedness. Love it.

@newday2637 26 днів тому

What a great clip, burnout is a very important thing. When he explains the constant email checking that clearly inhibits productivity, it’s really insane . Definitely makes no sense to constantly have to check them and not actually get anything accomplished. I also agree with poem if you enter into something with wholeheartedness no matter the difficulty , it could be cure to burnout. It seems nowadays, most people only give minimal effort to things .

@janwalicki9209 24 дні тому

Feels like lots of this only applies to white collar workers. But I guess that's most of the audience. Episode request - Huberman breaks down healthy hacks for shift workers.

@dumitrascuraul4729 25 днів тому

Super to the point 💪🏼

@Nick-qn6sp 26 днів тому

Drew bro we believe in your work , your videos have made our lives productive don't listen to the naysayers

@candicerichards5753 2 дні тому

So, so, SO, so good!!! 👌💫

@TheNomadicTrader 25 днів тому

8:07 - a statement clearly demonstrating a man who has his sh*t together 👏🏻

@geekspeak1066 23 дні тому

Fixing culture is tough but there are some simple features for our exist tools that would greatly increase my quality of life.

@norbibajgyik4460 26 днів тому

What about the industries that do not sit in an office all day ????

@BigNick3468 9 днів тому

Healthcare shares this problem - the number of messages, conversations, and clicks that are required to do something simple like give a patient an aspirin is spiraling out of control.

@crexx8296 26 днів тому

Wait do all of the UKposts versions have video? I've listened to every episode on Spotify.

@beingavinav 26 днів тому

Hakuna Matata..🙂

@andrewtan2598 22 дні тому

Then manager's or boss's will gas light that you're incompetent

@jtome84-91 20 днів тому

I’ve been doing 6-13’s a week working on a subway tunnel in a tower crane since September 2022 …

@faisalhussain4022 26 днів тому

My company is been using Microsoft AI M365 copilot and what a game changer it is. So I agree technology is heading in the right direction to give us a break.

@billal-dz 17 днів тому

That’s why I like to work remotely!

@chunkchips4554 24 дні тому

This is nursing school in a nutshell. It's busy work, forced hours, mostly quantity over quality. It's activity instead of productivity.

@alexanderwindh4830 15 днів тому

More tips on how to fix it

@OldTomato44 25 днів тому

In my experience, the endless meetings comes from middle and upper-middle management needing to create busywork for themselves and their underlings, in order to justify their existence at the given institution.

@gasparsigma 19 днів тому

Interesting talk but I have learned absolutely nothing practical that I can do as an individual to avoid burnout

@flyingintuition987 15 днів тому

this isn’t about burnout…

@sara6alqurashi 19 годин тому

agree is more about productivity

@andreistoian2096 25 днів тому

I actually stopped the video when he was talking about using brain energy to just respond to email…and I was thinking how can AI be used in a way where it can Identify the thread of a conversation on Slack or email, and then just continue it without using our own brain energy for it or maybe something like Neuralink integrated with AI where you could work, and somehow answer email, for example, but just using your thoughts and the AI doing the boring work, writing that email etc, so you can focus on the actual work.

@jonathanpadavatan3611 20 днів тому

so that's further down the rabbit hole. He's talking about meta work and using AI to do meta work is well..?. maybe we should try to use AI to reduce the GINI coefficent to zero across the planet-

@crispynachos92 17 днів тому

This is a great critique on administrative fluff, but this is not burn out. There was a time in my life when meetings and emails were my only "rest stop" for the day. Burnout is when you're working 3 different jobs too afford your bills because you have no other choice. Burnout is when you have exhausted your physical and mental bandwidth to depletion and your brain and body put you in a time out.

@slivi05 14 днів тому

Which is why they began by specifying that they were discussing burnout among office workers. There are many other ways and lifestyle where the term can be applied. I hope things eventuality for better for you.

@MrFromminsk 22 дні тому

Admitting that the BS work doesn't make sense would put you on he chopping block. For example, I am a software engineer at large corporation. We have way too many people. Probably 50% can be laid off without any productivity loss. Try to bring it up to the manager and see what happens?

@lukeharris2622 26 днів тому

✝️💪

@petebarber6778 19 днів тому

your identity should not be based on your work.

@andrewt9434 13 днів тому

id love to be in meetings all day 🙄

@petebarber6778 19 днів тому

Andrew......your guests are usually more wisely chosen

@ReflectionOcean 23 дні тому

By YouSum Live 00:00:20 Wholeheartedness counters burnout's extreme exhaustion. 00:01:45 Overwhelming workloads and administrative overhead contribute to burnout. 00:04:00 Constant distractions from emails and meetings hinder deep work. 00:04:16 Digital communication norms in workplaces intensify burnout challenges. 00:08:33 Cultural shift towards self-care can combat burnout in knowledge work. 00:09:50 Prioritizing cognitive well-being can unlock significant economic potential. 00:10:27 Revolutionizing work practices akin to industrial advancements can boost productivity. By YouSum Live

@petebarber6778 19 днів тому

has this dude lived in a world where everyone has an office job?

@goldfish2289 26 днів тому

First

@petebarber6778 19 днів тому

if you are not grounded at home......you will be fu... in the workplace

@DPmusicForTheMind 12 днів тому

FYI: they don’t tell you how to not burn out

@zachcombs9103 15 днів тому

Where the hell does this guy work? Don’t think the cause of burnout is checking emails…

@pauleerhart1 9 днів тому

In all honesty and no offense meant, this is really just scratching the surface about causes for burnouts. The true cause lies in all the negative/limiting beliefs that live in your unconscious mind, which have been build up during your lifetime (often originating in early childhood). As long as you don't transform these beliefs (via hypnosis), burnout is just around any corner. Independent of work culture, or other external factors. The latter are NEVER the root cause of burnout, it's the stories you tell yourself. Not allowing yourself to respect your boundaries, desperately trying to meet other people's expectations in order to get 'approval' (i'm good enough), etc etc. As long as you seek self-approval outside yourself and not truly transform your beliefs, you'll never be free. I've been in a very heavy burnout and dealt with a shitload of limiting beliefs. 5 years later, I'm a completely different person, feeling truly free to live my life according to my own desires. Thanks to hypnosis, done by someone who actually knows what she's doing. But as hypnosis is not in the interest of the 'healthcare industry', it will always be set aside as a fairytale. So unfair, but that's what the collective conscious has been learned to belief. I could talk for hours on this subject. Feel free to reach out. Kind regards, Paul