#self-development #productivity #efficiency #burnout #anxiety #self-flagellation
My name is Nikolai Chernobaev, I am an entrepreneur and amateur director from St. Petersburg.
For more than 10 years I have been working at the intersection of it, video and educational technologies, and all this time I have been engaged in personal and professional development.
Over the past few years, I have spoken to more than 60 professionals in various fields of activity from entrepreneurs, marketers and programmers to bloggers, musicians and directors, trying to find out what unites all these different creative people and what difficulties they face along the way of their development.
The things that I discovered during our dialogues amazed me. One in three people with whom I spoke on the topic of personal development experienced burnout, anxiety states, or an annoying feeling of guilt for not developing well enough or quickly. Many were treated by psychotherapists.
And I am no exception. In December 2019, for the first time, I experienced a major burnout and insomnia due to the fact that I was subconsciously trying to do everything that I did not manage to do in a year, and in the spring of 2020 I underwent psychotherapy to treat my anxiety disorder.
These events and encounters led me to want to look at the root causes of these problems and find the answer:
Are these problems the result of our priorities as a society?
And how does the industry of self-development and personal productivity affect our psychological health?
In search of answers to these questions, this documentary was created.
Author and director: Nikolai Chernobaev
Shooting and editing: Nikolai Chernobaev
Movie characters:
Pavel Zhavnerov
Tatyana Artemyeva
Anastasia Igosheva
Svetlana Glushkova (LANA)
Karolina K
Arseniy Kim
Artem Dmitriev
Daria Pushkarskaya
Ilya Kozlov
Oleg Patsay
Alexander Kosenko
If you like how I shoot, then pay attention to my photo and video presets:
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Pavel Zhavnerov's channel:
/ pzhavruonlinepsiholog
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My video production
momentfilms.ru/
Music from the film:
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Additional footage from the film:
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