Get the FREE One-Month Day checklist here: www.flowstate.com/onemonthday Rían here. Thanks for watching! Ever battle that "burned out" feeling - where work feels impossible, even when you WANT to crush it? There's a science to beating burnout for good. It's about tackling the real causes, not just taking time off. With the science-backed techniques in this PDF, you can disable your burnout triggers and complete a month’s worth of work in less than a day.
I feel that way with my job right now. It's meaningless, and mindless. I've been held back my entire life from a really young age. I'm 37 now, and my potential is eating away at me like a parasite. *I want a damned CHANCE.* I'm sick of wasting my life in factories and warehouses. I want to illustrate, write, read, study math. I never got that chance as a teenager. I HAVE SO MUCH MORE CREATIVE POTENTIAL THAN THIS. IT'S EATING ME ALIVE.
summary 00:00 🧠 Burnout differs from depression and affects motivation through exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy. 02:48 🧬 Burnout is a recognized medical disorder impacting neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction. 04:39 🔑 Identifying burnout triggers (lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community) is crucial to tackle and prevent burnout. 08:37 🎯 "The right kind of hard" tasks should offer sufficient reward, align with intrinsic motivation, and challenge upper limits to prevent burnout. 12:30 🛠 Address burnout triggers by solving the root cause in the workplace for comprehensive prevention. 16:12 🛡 Prevent burnout by actively recovering through various stress-relief methods like cold-induced thermogenesis, heat therapy, exercise, massage, and myofascial release.
this is a therapeutic session in value of thousands of dollars, broken down in 18 minutes. Listening closely and breaking it down step by step as you do it is fantastic. Thanks for SO MUCH value!!!!!!!!
I have gone through fair share of productivity content on YT since 2017. Let me tell the way you share information aka wisdom, no other does it. Your videos have increased my confidence in my ability to solve problems of my life. Thank you Rian. Listening and Learning from India💫
@@aviralarpan7350 I love the message you have left and it actually clicked something inside my brain. Love the challenge. Thanks, man. Took the screenshot and will celebrate when I'll achieve my goals. And brother life isn't linear for you to use the same mental models for different problems that life will throw towards you. Maybe you are a teen! You need to grow internally a lot throughout your life and it is a never-ending story.
Here is a summary of the video in bullet points: Burnout is a distinct medical condition characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy It is caused by prolonged exposure to burnout triggers like lack of control, unfairness, insufficient reward, etc. Burnout alters the brain's neural pathways in a way that increases negative emotions and decreases self-control To prevent burnout, one must identify their personal burnout triggers and address the root causes It's important to choose the "right kind of hard" work that plays to your strengths and provides sufficient reward One should avoid staying "too close to the line" and overexerting themselves by regularly assessing capacity In some cases, intentionally increasing workload short-term can boost success and motivation to overcome burnout Triggers like lack of control, unfairness, etc. must be systematically disarmed through direct communication Building "burnout body armor" with recovery techniques like cold therapy, heat therapy and exercise can help too
The amount of value in the content shared here is phenomenal! Please keep sharing this for free for those of us that cannot afford access to such information.
the most incredible thing was not only the detailed knowledge regarding burnout mechanisms, but the warmth of feeling truly understood. This feeling alone has already greatly alleviated my state of burnout in a way I could never have imagined, thank you man
I usually don’t write comments, but there is so much value in here, your videos deserve 100m views as it seems like they can change people’s lives; make economies more productive etc starting to apply your suggestions!
As someone that has struggled with burnout for years, and recently getting far worse, I greatly appreciate the timeliness of this video. The two points that really hit hone for me are 1) feeling like what I do has no meaning or proportional reward for a given effort, and 2) always red-lining it. I think 2 compounds the effects of 1. It has been years since a 4 week vacation or sabbatical has truly felt restoring.
I love this! I'm currently using the "Third Bird" energy management, doing my writing/heavy cognitive and creative tasks between 9am-2:30pm ON TOP of drinking coffee an hour after I wake up (according to your other videos) and PUSHING myself past the "Struggle" phase, then taking a small break /"Releasing" and then back into FLOW STATE! Additionally, I've been using the 'pomodoro' technique to create "CERTAINTY WINDOWS" where I can fully concentrate, without distraction on my writing! It's been an amazing week of productivity! Thank you guys so much for the help! Please, keep pumping out these content because it's helping so many people! Appreciate it!
00:02 Understanding burnout and its impact 02:03 Recognizing and understanding burnout 04:06 Understand the six burnout triggers and their impact on mental well-being. 06:06 Addressing burnout triggers at work is essential to prevent burnout. 08:14 Working hard without burning out requires intrinsic motivation and aligning with your strengths. 10:16 Sustainable effort beats an endless sprint every time. 12:23 Lean in to work strategically to combat burnout 14:20 Addressing Burnout Triggers 16:14 Active recovery is key to preventing burnout 17:53 Physiological burnout proofing through cold plunges, heat therapy, exercise, and massage.
This content is gold. Browsed your videos and they're all gold, too. Very helpful for young professionals like me. I might have been suffering from a burnout while browsing YT at work. This is 'out-of-character' for me but I am feeling down for the past months without knowing why. Thank you for your videos and I will follow closely on your advices.
This is such a magnificent delivery of Ideals, the way you verbalize your thoughts and the concepts you have formulated is nothing short of amazing, your precision when it comes to choosing the appropriate words is just Brilliant! I wish to be as orally articulated as you one day!
Thank you Rian for your research with everything, for school I have to have a presentation about something I'm passionate about, and I'm going to talk about the Flow state. You're the reason I'm so interested in all of this. Much appreciated.
While recovering from f our flow, can we appreciate the beauty of his soundtracks?! Phenomenal! Thank You Rian for such high-quality content-- by far the best on UA-cam as of today!
This. is. incredible. I rarely comment on UA-cam videos but I've just recently discovered your channel and WOW I am blown away. I hope I get to thank you in person one day. I've been studying human transformation for the last few years and I've recently decided to lean deep into research around productivity. I've noticed many patterns for success and failure in myself and in clients and it's incredible how you apply the science to things I've observed yet never fully had the words for. The science you provide also confirms some of my suspicions that I couldn't tell if I was just "making up". I am learning so much and implementing all of this like a MF! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I never realized but these burnout triggers can definitely be present at home in your family. This video is huge. Needs to be hours long, going into more detail.
This immediately went into my ‘video bible’ playlist. Listening to you run this down, I realized I may have been misattributing my burnout as depression. Going to give the guidance on fixing and future proofing against burnout a try! Let’s see if it works for a motivated cog in the fortune 500 machine
One of the rare videos which gives the practically implementable tips along with a brief & accurate conceptual background combined with Quality graihics.❤❤
Isn't it interesting the caregivers as spoken of at 1:15 first had high motivation and reward and then over time burned out and became cynical. Caregivers have high burn out rates even today, and you would think it is a high purposeful job and indeed it is. But, a job with high purpose doesn't mean you won't have burnout, it bares it's burden over time. Wouldn't it be better if at an individual level we could take care of each other for a time, until people are well, find purpose and reward in that caregiving, and then continue on after that time of helpfulness. I think what burns out caregivers in all circumstances is that it's *constant*, and there is no seen time of wellness or health, i.e. once their patients are well you don't get the reward of seeing them healed, they leave, or they pass on. So we have a community of caregivers constantly and exclusively seeing the weak and dying and disabled, but never see the progression of health and wellness. You see so much death and pain without the balance of health and birth. When we used to, as a family, take care of our elderly or sick, you would have help from different family members, and it would be for a time, not a 20-30+ year career. And if you did have to care for a family member who was chronically disabled, at least that was your one or two loved ones you cared for, not 10, 30, 70 patients you glanced over because you don't have time to sit and be intentional with them because you're short staffed, because people keep leaving, because they're burned out. Families need to take care of their family, and have outside help and community help if needed, if the family is small, or the only family is elderly. That won't happen in this society, so what can we do? Or maybe you already do that but you want to help other caregivers. Show gratitude and let caregivers know that you are thankful for them, that they make a difference, and it's not all death and pain. The work is a negative experience not because the patience aren't worth caring for, but because the transition between life to death is a difficult, negative one. Death is in no way fun, or pretty. But taking care of the elderly is worth it. ❤ Taking care of our dear ones through disability is worth it. ❤ Taking care of the mentally ill and homeless is worth it. ❤ So tell people who take care of them thank you. ❤ Yes, people can wonder if it's worth it. And people leave the field. And people stop caring, wishing that death would just hasten them to the grave, or that they would just assist s*icide. This is NOT the solution. It is worth taking care of people, though the hurt, the disabled, the poor will always be with us. It is worth caring for them and loving them. ❤ Don't be deceived by the narrative that it would be better for society if they all just die by AS -- this is not the solution. Tell someone who is a caregiver thank you. THAT'S how you as an individual can help someone else mitigate their burnout, by expressing gratitude and thankfulness to others. That is how we need to lower burnout -- we can control no other aspect. This world we live in is burning. Be the water who puts out the flames in someone else's life by expressing gratitude.
You are speaking facts. It must be balanced out. Thank you! You have said it so eloquently and beautifully. He does mention in the video thatbacknowledgment is important in preventing burn out, but your words bring it to the fore with additional clarity. ❤❤❤
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🚦 *Understanding Burnout and Its Impact* - Burnout is a significant barrier to optimal performance. - Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger coined the term "burnout" in the 1970s. - Burnout is characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy. 02:48 🧠 *Personal Experience with Burnout* - Personal narrative of burnout during an internship in the US. - Burnout is more than just fatigue or stress; it's a distinct medical disorder. - Burnout affects neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction. 04:39 🎯 *Identifying Burnout Triggers* - Christina Maslach's six burnout triggers: lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, and breakdown of community. - Understanding and addressing burnout triggers is crucial. - Burnout often results from a combination of triggers rather than a single factor. 06:16 🔄 *Solving Burnout by Addressing Root Causes* - To tackle burnout, identify and address specific triggers. - Solving the root problem of each burnout trigger is essential. - Don't focus solely on one trigger; address them comprehensively. 08:22 🛤️ *Choosing the Right Kind of Hard* - The importance of choosing tasks that align with intrinsic motivators. - The right kind of hard comes with sufficient reward. - Tasks fueled by intrinsic motivation lead to a flow state, reducing burnout risk. 10:55 📉 *Avoiding Redlining and Managing Capacity* - Redlining, operating at maximum capacity for extended periods, leads to burnout. - Monitoring and managing your daily capacity can prevent burnout. - Sustainable effort at 80% intensity is more effective than continuous max effort. 13:10 🏃 *When to Sprint Uphill* - In certain situations, strategic increases in workload can combat burnout. - Temporary intensification for significant results can energize and prevent burnout. - Stacking wins and achieving success helps blunt the impact of burnout. 14:21 🚫 *Disarming Burnout Triggers* - Systematically address burnout triggers based on personal risk. - Examples of addressing triggers: gaining more control, seeking recognition, aligning with company values. - The burnout triggers must be disarmed to experience lasting relief. 16:26 🛡️ *Building Burnout Body Armor through Active Recovery* - Active recovery, particularly hermetic stressors, is crucial for preventing burnout. - Cold and heat exposure, exercise, and massage contribute to active recovery. - Using short bursts of hermetic stress can make burnout almost impossible. Made with HARPA AI
Man, this was one of the most entertaining self education content. Rian, you have nailed the art the of visual storytelling. Kudos for sharing and rooting for success.
My Notes from this video: Burnout is typical. It is exhaustion, cynicism and low self efficacy. Breakout is not from only from one trigger ## Six burnout trigger 1. Lack of control 2. Value conflicts 3. Insufficient reward 4. work overload 5. unfairness 6. breakdown of community # How to not burnout ### Choose the right kind of hard play to your strength, have a good reward for your task The right kind of hard is fueled by intrinsic motivation, if we have curiosity, mastery, autotelicity, purpose and automony lead to more flow state You want most of the challenge to be tilted toward the upper end of a task, get from good to great ### Don’t stay to close to the line run at 80% of productivity. if you do 110% you get burnout and it takes long to get back to work. Start you daily capacity from 0 to 10 if you are at 8 or 9 slow down ### 3.If you see a hill sprint Leaning in is the solution to burnout. You can work out of burnout. Getting results is great against burnout. Make this only for a limited short time. ### Disarm the burnout triggers Detect and look for the triggers. For lack of control control on one thing For work overload take time off and recovery. Insufficient reward ask more for rewards unfairness don’t compare yourself to other people. Values conflicts contrast the core values. Breakdown community make space to people to talk with them ### Build your burnout body armor Do Active recovery. Use hermetics stress for this do mediation or a walk for this for a short time in the day. Cold showers, sauna, exercise, massage.
I’ve never seen your channel before, and this is going to sound like a weird compliment, but the production quality of this video is so good that my amygdala is freaking out waiting for the slimy, sneaky sales pitch.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🤯 *Understanding Burnout* - Burnout is a solvable issue when the underlying neuroses are understood. - Burnout involves exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy. - Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger coined the term "burnout" in the 1970s, observing a unique motivational collapse. 02:48 🧠 *Characteristics of Burnout* - Burnout is distinct: exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy. - Burnout is the opposite of the optimal state of consciousness called "flow." - Burnout alters neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction. 04:39 🔍 *Understanding Burnout Triggers* - Christina Maslach's six burnout triggers: lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community. - Burnout requires identifying and addressing the root problem, not just symptomatic relief. - Addressing all burnout triggers is crucial to prevent recurrence. 06:44 💡 *Neuroscience-Based Protocols* - Choose the right kind of hard: tasks with sufficient reward, intrinsic motivation, aligning with strengths. - Don't stay too close to the line: sustainable effort beats an endless sprint. - When you see a hill, sprint: strategically push past the allostatic load limit for short-term gains. 14:07 🚧 *Disarming Burnout Triggers* - Systematically address burnout triggers: lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community. - Tailor solutions for each trigger, such as gaining more recognition, adjusting workload, or resolving conflicts. - Unresolved burnout persists until the underlying triggers are tackled. 16:12 ⚔️ *Building Burnout Body Armor* - Prevent burnout through active recovery: using hermetic stressors like cold exposure, heat therapy, exercise, and massage. - Active recovery helps reset the nervous system and lower long-term stress. - Intensity matters: short bursts of intense recovery activities are more effective in fighting burnout. Made with HARPA AI
Excellent video, thank you. Favorited the vid and subscribed. I will get back to it, but since I am in a situation I want to get out of as fast as I can (living with my narcissistic father) I will now sprint up that hill.
Hello Rian, i have seen quite a few of your videos and honestly i am very impressed. first of all thank you! your videos have bought a positive change in my life, second of all i would like to share my situation. I am a JEE aspirant and cracking it requires months of consistent effort, along with the IQ you possess ofcourse. I actually am here to request a video or niche advice for my case and around half a billion people who face things such as: Low motivation, attraction to the other gender, procastination, burn out, lack of mental strength, sometimes even mastrubation. there are a lot of issues we face but only have one reason to go ahead............you have said bits and pieces of everything above in all of your videos spread out but trust me i would be absolutely thrilled to have your advice as an expert. i have made countless plans only to relapse to my old ways.......so i know i am doing something wrong......but what exactly is i cant figure that out........
Underrated channel. I am a early stage 24yo entrepreneur and ex-gaming addict who got inspired by the direct, raw approach of Andrew T. making me go full-in, eventually running into a wall. I experienced thesame you explain you did in your video in your earlier career; before the career shift. Your detailed videos are great and i am extremely thankful for your videos, and i am glad your new career work(s)(ed) better for you. You deserve it. And you also deserve to hear that you are saving me a massive chunk of energy and time, because the detail and greatly selected words for your script explain exactly to me how i can chase my desired amount of productivity. I have done 3 career shifts, and i have 5 hobbys. Of which i am good enough at none to make something big (enough) out of it. Your videos helped me align everything and made me aware of the realism i did not know at first. Thank you a whole bunch, friend. I would pay a rib out of the body to talk with you for an hour.
@@bot_1-sp4sm yeah its great we are thankful, but it can be a tough fight. As Rian says in his videos; we are all good at something, but different things. After top g inspired me to pick one of the most simple and profitable business models out there, i notice how i personally just don't really enjoy it at all. But i'm trying to fall in love with the simplicity and financial reward of it, so i'm fighting my way through the burnout to make it. But it feels so contradictory.. making myself fight through my personality just because thinking the light at the end of the tunnel is worth it. Currently i have been in a burnout phase for months- the smallest tasks feel like a deadlift. While the first months felt immaculately exciting... Like top g said some time: ''work for passion is BS. Do you think the multi-millionaire in china working with concrete is passionate about concrete? Does he like- lick it? No.'' But even when i try to apply that simple, goal-focussed thought to myself, that makes the biggest question i have these days: Just because i want big money in the fastest/simplest way, does that mean fighting my personality in this marketing business model is worth it?
Great advice. I'm living proof burnout is nothing to take lightly. I'll seriously try to implement the tips in some way, even though the approach taken here is mostly for "normal" people who are in the natural rhythm of sympathetic-parasympathetic neural response. I'm not. My whole organism has been on perpetual freeze response and constant high alert mode since an accident in infancy. But even so, I can see the merit of these five approaches. Burnout differs from depression. Oh, yes. And anybody who has not felt the bottomless free-fall exhaustion of burnout have no clue. It's not a temporary rut, it's kind of life-threateningly compact high-speed nothingness. But you may still be able to laugh and see things from the bright side. It's more like having lost control of the body and its fuctions. Burnout is a recognized disorder. Yes, it is, but the usual docs do not know how to handle it. Seeking help when I just couldn't get out of bed anylonger I was diagnosed with depression. Relentlessly rejecting SSRI, claiming I was not depressed, I was called hypochondriac for four years until I got secondary illnesses due to stress and they actually started taking me seriously. Docs still didn't know what to do about it, though. Long story short: I'm now on perpetual sick leave since having been in burnout mode for the last 20 years, making it chronic. Docs have no clue what to do but tell me to "take it easy". Identifying burnout triggers is essential. Hearing about this one, I realise school was a 12 year sprint of cognitive blunting, boredom and systemic under-challenge. I was always one of the smarter kids, and had to just sit and wait for the others, or erase pages in my workbooks when I had ended up in flow and done too much during a lesson. That taught me to not aspire to greatness as, either I do or don't, I'm f*cked. The right kind of hard My parents were almost as traumatised as myself from the accident I had. They did their best, but never understood that I was never alright. I learned that life is a constant struggle, that I have to over-achieve and excel to get anything, and that I must always and foremost be nice and never be better than anybody else. That is hard, but hardly the right kind of hard, especially for a kid. The result is, of course, that I don't know how to gauge "hard" and I don't know when I've crossed the line. Active recovery In my teens I was athletic, but after burnout I always crash again when trying to move, as I don't know how to be kind to myself in a productive way. I've now been waiting for a year to get professional help on how to rehab out of it. Massage and therapies are not on the menu, as I can just about cover food and shelter on the meagre pension I have. But I do have internet, and I'm actively working on getting my life-long stress responses under control. I believe that exploring "The right kind of hard" is my way out. I need to re-evaluate how I treat myself and what bars I set for myself. I'm kind of in a perpetual war with myself, and this video made that clear to me in a new way. I need to make peace with myself.
Great video, and some realy interesting insights into burnout and what it entails. I especially like your outlook on sustainable effort, because as important as EFFORT is, it has to be something you can remain consistent with-sometimes sticking at 80% is better, as you say, to go slow and somewhat steady so you can keep the pace up
You also need the Human Givens without which burnout is more than likely as you are not living 'in balance'. Toxic corporate or social or isolated environment can make burnout become chronic, by that stage you are looking at some level potentially of PTSD - brought on by the burnout, or potentially by other traumas outside the 'productivity goals'. If you work hard enough at something to achieve some flow state for a while be grateful and thankful it is one of the finest experiences of life.
Rian can you cut down the length of the intros? Oftentimes I find boredom with the background information, and we already know your accomplishments introduced in other videos. I would like to know the solution faster and how it solves the problem, Thanks.
Autotelicity? “Hobbies are a great example of autotelic (intrinsically rewarding) activities; whether it is art, gaming, dancing, or rock climbing, we all have something we love doing regardless of external rewards.”
Winning = Efficient reward for work output. We could have stopped there. No one still not in the 1% has control over this. That’s the challenge. “Dial back a bit” lol I will tell my landlord that on the 1st when rent is due.
Great content very valuable!!!! - you have a great way of delivering your words I do think it is overedited though very dopamine flashy sometimes difficult to fully soak in what you are saying
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Rían here. Thanks for watching! Ever battle that "burned out" feeling - where work feels impossible, even when you WANT to crush it? There's a science to beating burnout for good. It's about tackling the real causes, not just taking time off.
With the science-backed techniques in this PDF, you can disable your burnout triggers and complete a month’s worth of work in less than a day.
Honestly one of the best channels on UA-cam right now. Appreciate your work brother!!
Sure
Fair play to ye Rían , Keep up the good work!
What is the font you are using here? Tks in advance!
I feel that way with my job right now. It's meaningless, and mindless.
I've been held back my entire life from a really young age. I'm 37 now, and my potential is eating away at me like a parasite. *I want a damned CHANCE.* I'm sick of wasting my life in factories and warehouses. I want to illustrate, write, read, study math. I never got that chance as a teenager.
I HAVE SO MUCH MORE CREATIVE POTENTIAL THAN THIS. IT'S EATING ME ALIVE.
summary
00:00 🧠 Burnout differs from depression and affects motivation through exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy.
02:48 🧬 Burnout is a recognized medical disorder impacting neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction.
04:39 🔑 Identifying burnout triggers (lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community) is crucial to tackle and prevent burnout.
08:37 🎯 "The right kind of hard" tasks should offer sufficient reward, align with intrinsic motivation, and challenge upper limits to prevent burnout.
12:30 🛠 Address burnout triggers by solving the root cause in the workplace for comprehensive prevention.
16:12 🛡 Prevent burnout by actively recovering through various stress-relief methods like cold-induced thermogenesis, heat therapy, exercise, massage, and myofascial release.
Thanks bro
Thanks Brother 🙏
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@mehranzo546 thank you for this it's so helpful
Thanks and may live long betey(son)
this is a therapeutic session in value of thousands of dollars, broken down in 18 minutes. Listening closely and breaking it down step by step as you do it is fantastic. Thanks for SO MUCH value!!!!!!!!
I have gone through fair share of productivity content on YT since 2017. Let me tell the way you share information aka wisdom, no other does it. Your videos have increased my confidence in my ability to solve problems of my life. Thank you Rian. Listening and Learning from India💫
Lol u still
Won't work
@@aviralarpan7350mind your business
@@aviralarpan7350 Unnecessary opinion DETECTED and of course rejected like how you reject positivity in your narrow mind.
@@aviralarpan7350 I love the message you have left and it actually clicked something inside my brain. Love the challenge. Thanks, man. Took the screenshot and will celebrate when I'll achieve my goals. And brother life isn't linear for you to use the same mental models for different problems that life will throw towards you. Maybe you are a teen! You need to grow internally a lot throughout your life and it is a never-ending story.
@@shobinyad6643 instead of long essays, go do something useful lol
Also, getting offended easily even after growing so much in life is very funny
Here is a summary of the video in bullet points:
Burnout is a distinct medical condition characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy
It is caused by prolonged exposure to burnout triggers like lack of control, unfairness, insufficient reward, etc.
Burnout alters the brain's neural pathways in a way that increases negative emotions and decreases self-control
To prevent burnout, one must identify their personal burnout triggers and address the root causes
It's important to choose the "right kind of hard" work that plays to your strengths and provides sufficient reward
One should avoid staying "too close to the line" and overexerting themselves by regularly assessing capacity
In some cases, intentionally increasing workload short-term can boost success and motivation to overcome burnout
Triggers like lack of control, unfairness, etc. must be systematically disarmed through direct communication
Building "burnout body armor" with recovery techniques like cold therapy, heat therapy and exercise can help too
The amount of value in the content shared here is phenomenal! Please keep sharing this for free for those of us that cannot afford access to such information.
God sent you man. This is exactly the video I needed exactly right now.
everything will be okay, even if it feels like it won't
Someone need to teach this to young people, I wanna cry I didn't knew this before . this is so important.
the most incredible thing was not only the detailed knowledge regarding burnout mechanisms, but the warmth of feeling truly understood. This feeling alone has already greatly alleviated my state of burnout in a way I could never have imagined, thank you man
This might be the best productivity video on the entire UA-cam. Real actual facts.
I usually don’t write comments, but there is so much value in here, your videos deserve 100m views as it seems like they can change people’s lives; make economies more productive etc starting to apply your suggestions!
As someone that has struggled with burnout for years, and recently getting far worse, I greatly appreciate the timeliness of this video. The two points that really hit hone for me are 1) feeling like what I do has no meaning or proportional reward for a given effort, and 2) always red-lining it. I think 2 compounds the effects of 1. It has been years since a 4 week vacation or sabbatical has truly felt restoring.
I love this! I'm currently using the "Third Bird" energy management, doing my writing/heavy cognitive and creative tasks between 9am-2:30pm ON TOP of drinking coffee an hour after I wake up (according to your other videos) and PUSHING myself past the "Struggle" phase, then taking a small break /"Releasing" and then back into FLOW STATE! Additionally, I've been using the 'pomodoro' technique to create "CERTAINTY WINDOWS" where I can fully concentrate, without distraction on my writing! It's been an amazing week of productivity!
Thank you guys so much for the help! Please, keep pumping out these content because it's helping so many people! Appreciate it!
Taking notes. Thank you
00:02 Understanding burnout and its impact
02:03 Recognizing and understanding burnout
04:06 Understand the six burnout triggers and their impact on mental well-being.
06:06 Addressing burnout triggers at work is essential to prevent burnout.
08:14 Working hard without burning out requires intrinsic motivation and aligning with your strengths.
10:16 Sustainable effort beats an endless sprint every time.
12:23 Lean in to work strategically to combat burnout
14:20 Addressing Burnout Triggers
16:14 Active recovery is key to preventing burnout
17:53 Physiological burnout proofing through cold plunges, heat therapy, exercise, and massage.
You’re a lifesaver. Love your videos, it’s nuanced for the gods!
The timing of the vid is immaculate. I was burned out the day before and took yesterday off to replenish. Worked out well 🙏🏽
This content is gold. Browsed your videos and they're all gold, too. Very helpful for young professionals like me. I might have been suffering from a burnout while browsing YT at work. This is 'out-of-character' for me but I am feeling down for the past months without knowing why.
Thank you for your videos and I will follow closely on your advices.
This is such a magnificent delivery of Ideals, the way you verbalize your thoughts and the concepts you have formulated is nothing short of amazing, your precision when it comes to choosing the appropriate words is just Brilliant! I wish to be as orally articulated as you one day!
You are a blessing Sir! I can't thank you enough! Your videos are awesome! God Bless You!!!!
Banger every time
You did a great job brother appreciate your efforts and help
Stay blessed and ignore haters
I burned out badly 4 years ago. Couldn’t work for a year! Thank good I got well again and learnt how to adapt.
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Thank you.
Dear Rian, you've saved my S, I wished you could've saved it sooner , but better late than never.
Thank you Rian for your research with everything, for school I have to have a presentation about something I'm passionate about, and I'm going to talk about the Flow state. You're the reason I'm so interested in all of this. Much appreciated.
While recovering from f our flow, can we appreciate the beauty of his soundtracks?! Phenomenal! Thank You Rian for such high-quality content-- by far the best on UA-cam as of today!
This. is. incredible.
I rarely comment on UA-cam videos but I've just recently discovered your channel and WOW I am blown away. I hope I get to thank you in person one day. I've been studying human transformation for the last few years and I've recently decided to lean deep into research around productivity. I've noticed many patterns for success and failure in myself and in clients and it's incredible how you apply the science to things I've observed yet never fully had the words for. The science you provide also confirms some of my suspicions that I couldn't tell if I was just "making up". I am learning so much and implementing all of this like a MF! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I never realized but these burnout triggers can definitely be present at home in your family. This video is huge. Needs to be hours long, going into more detail.
This guy's energy and content. How is he not popular!!!! 😮😮😮
he explanations are complicated
This immediately went into my ‘video bible’ playlist.
Listening to you run this down, I realized I may have been misattributing my burnout as depression.
Going to give the guidance on fixing and future proofing against burnout a try! Let’s see if it works for a motivated cog in the fortune 500 machine
One of the most underrated channels on UA-cam. Great content and some of the best editing I’ve seen!
There's so much value in these videos, it's unbelievable. 💎 Thank you so much for sharing these concepts with the world. Your work is priceless.
My fav channel on YT right now! Actually one of the few channels that I need and should watch:)
One of the rare videos which gives the practically implementable tips along with a brief & accurate conceptual background combined with Quality graihics.❤❤
where ?/
The amount of value receive in this video is astronomical! Plus I’ve finally understood difference types of motivation 🥳
You're the only channel that consistently speaks to me
Idk the science behind this, but interestingly, watching this video lowered my feeling of burnout... I took notes!
Watched twice through, and got my notes done. Thank you again!
Im doing all the things you teach on your videos, and it feels amazing, thank you for the BIG help
Your videos are a massive help, thanks brother. No idea how you are not already way over a milly!
One of the best videos I've seen on this topic, I can't wait to write notes on this video and really dial it in!
You got me stuck here for 18 minutes unexpectedly! You got a new sub. 🎉
I needed this, thank God and thank you❤
Thank you for your video . I didn’t realise that I was indeed burn out and not depressed . god bless you
Isn't it interesting the caregivers as spoken of at 1:15 first had high motivation and reward and then over time burned out and became cynical. Caregivers have high burn out rates even today, and you would think it is a high purposeful job and indeed it is. But, a job with high purpose doesn't mean you won't have burnout, it bares it's burden over time. Wouldn't it be better if at an individual level we could take care of each other for a time, until people are well, find purpose and reward in that caregiving, and then continue on after that time of helpfulness.
I think what burns out caregivers in all circumstances is that it's *constant*, and there is no seen time of wellness or health, i.e. once their patients are well you don't get the reward of seeing them healed, they leave, or they pass on. So we have a community of caregivers constantly and exclusively seeing the weak and dying and disabled, but never see the progression of health and wellness. You see so much death and pain without the balance of health and birth. When we used to, as a family, take care of our elderly or sick, you would have help from different family members, and it would be for a time, not a 20-30+ year career.
And if you did have to care for a family member who was chronically disabled, at least that was your one or two loved ones you cared for, not 10, 30, 70 patients you glanced over because you don't have time to sit and be intentional with them because you're short staffed, because people keep leaving, because they're burned out.
Families need to take care of their family, and have outside help and community help if needed, if the family is small, or the only family is elderly.
That won't happen in this society, so what can we do? Or maybe you already do that but you want to help other caregivers.
Show gratitude and let caregivers know that you are thankful for them, that they make a difference, and it's not all death and pain.
The work is a negative experience not because the patience aren't worth caring for, but because the transition between life to death is a difficult, negative one. Death is in no way fun, or pretty. But taking care of the elderly is worth it. ❤ Taking care of our dear ones through disability is worth it. ❤ Taking care of the mentally ill and homeless is worth it. ❤
So tell people who take care of them thank you. ❤
Yes, people can wonder if it's worth it.
And people leave the field.
And people stop caring, wishing that death would just hasten them to the grave, or that they would just assist s*icide. This is NOT the solution.
It is worth taking care of people, though the hurt, the disabled, the poor will always be with us. It is worth caring for them and loving them. ❤ Don't be deceived by the narrative that it would be better for society if they all just die by AS -- this is not the solution. Tell someone who is a caregiver thank you.
THAT'S how you as an individual can help someone else mitigate their burnout, by expressing gratitude and thankfulness to others.
That is how we need to lower burnout -- we can control no other aspect. This world we live in is burning. Be the water who puts out the flames in someone else's life by expressing gratitude.
You are speaking facts. It must be balanced out. Thank you! You have said it so eloquently and beautifully. He does mention in the video thatbacknowledgment is important in preventing burn out, but your words bring it to the fore with additional clarity. ❤❤❤
Thank you Rian Love from Sri lanka
Very well done video. Probably one of the best I have seen in the productivity community. So many good researches!
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🚦 *Understanding Burnout and Its Impact*
- Burnout is a significant barrier to optimal performance.
- Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger coined the term "burnout" in the 1970s.
- Burnout is characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy.
02:48 🧠 *Personal Experience with Burnout*
- Personal narrative of burnout during an internship in the US.
- Burnout is more than just fatigue or stress; it's a distinct medical disorder.
- Burnout affects neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction.
04:39 🎯 *Identifying Burnout Triggers*
- Christina Maslach's six burnout triggers: lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, and breakdown of community.
- Understanding and addressing burnout triggers is crucial.
- Burnout often results from a combination of triggers rather than a single factor.
06:16 🔄 *Solving Burnout by Addressing Root Causes*
- To tackle burnout, identify and address specific triggers.
- Solving the root problem of each burnout trigger is essential.
- Don't focus solely on one trigger; address them comprehensively.
08:22 🛤️ *Choosing the Right Kind of Hard*
- The importance of choosing tasks that align with intrinsic motivators.
- The right kind of hard comes with sufficient reward.
- Tasks fueled by intrinsic motivation lead to a flow state, reducing burnout risk.
10:55 📉 *Avoiding Redlining and Managing Capacity*
- Redlining, operating at maximum capacity for extended periods, leads to burnout.
- Monitoring and managing your daily capacity can prevent burnout.
- Sustainable effort at 80% intensity is more effective than continuous max effort.
13:10 🏃 *When to Sprint Uphill*
- In certain situations, strategic increases in workload can combat burnout.
- Temporary intensification for significant results can energize and prevent burnout.
- Stacking wins and achieving success helps blunt the impact of burnout.
14:21 🚫 *Disarming Burnout Triggers*
- Systematically address burnout triggers based on personal risk.
- Examples of addressing triggers: gaining more control, seeking recognition, aligning with company values.
- The burnout triggers must be disarmed to experience lasting relief.
16:26 🛡️ *Building Burnout Body Armor through Active Recovery*
- Active recovery, particularly hermetic stressors, is crucial for preventing burnout.
- Cold and heat exposure, exercise, and massage contribute to active recovery.
- Using short bursts of hermetic stress can make burnout almost impossible.
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it feels like the chosen one when watching his vids,makes tru quality content.
Glad you're back uploading full length videos. Hope you're doing well 😊
Man, this was one of the most entertaining self education content. Rian, you have nailed the art the of visual storytelling. Kudos for sharing and rooting for success.
My Notes from this video:
Burnout is typical.
It is exhaustion, cynicism and low self efficacy.
Breakout is not from only from one trigger
## Six burnout trigger
1. Lack of control
2. Value conflicts
3. Insufficient reward
4. work overload
5. unfairness
6. breakdown of community
# How to not burnout
### Choose the right kind of hard
play to your strength, have a good reward for your task
The right kind of hard is fueled by intrinsic motivation, if we have curiosity, mastery, autotelicity, purpose and automony lead to more flow state
You want most of the challenge to be tilted toward the upper end of a task, get from good to great
### Don’t stay to close to the line
run at 80% of productivity. if you do 110% you get burnout and it takes long to get back to work.
Start you daily capacity from 0 to 10 if you are at 8 or 9 slow down
### 3.If you see a hill sprint
Leaning in is the solution to burnout. You can work out of burnout. Getting results is great against burnout. Make this only for a limited short time.
### Disarm the burnout triggers
Detect and look for the triggers.
For lack of control control on one thing
For work overload take time off and recovery.
Insufficient reward ask more for rewards
unfairness don’t compare yourself to other people.
Values conflicts contrast the core values.
Breakdown community make space to people to talk with them
### Build your burnout body armor
Do Active recovery. Use hermetics stress for this do mediation or a walk for this for a short time in the day.
Cold showers, sauna, exercise, massage.
I am here again Rian, for skyrocketing my productive journey ❤.
Tumse ni Hoga rehne do
I feel you I've learned Accountant while Computer science was the thing that suited me the most, It was nightmarish .
This is great, systematic breakdown of burnout and workflow. Really appreciate it 😊
I’ve never seen your channel before, and this is going to sound like a weird compliment, but the production quality of this video is so good that my amygdala is freaking out waiting for the slimy, sneaky sales pitch.
I followed you at the beginning and now you are at 150k
This was a Brilliant presentation! Thanks so for sharing this! I will use it for my team
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🤯 *Understanding Burnout*
- Burnout is a solvable issue when the underlying neuroses are understood.
- Burnout involves exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy.
- Psychologist Herbert Freudenberger coined the term "burnout" in the 1970s, observing a unique motivational collapse.
02:48 🧠 *Characteristics of Burnout*
- Burnout is distinct: exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy.
- Burnout is the opposite of the optimal state of consciousness called "flow."
- Burnout alters neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction.
04:39 🔍 *Understanding Burnout Triggers*
- Christina Maslach's six burnout triggers: lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community.
- Burnout requires identifying and addressing the root problem, not just symptomatic relief.
- Addressing all burnout triggers is crucial to prevent recurrence.
06:44 💡 *Neuroscience-Based Protocols*
- Choose the right kind of hard: tasks with sufficient reward, intrinsic motivation, aligning with strengths.
- Don't stay too close to the line: sustainable effort beats an endless sprint.
- When you see a hill, sprint: strategically push past the allostatic load limit for short-term gains.
14:07 🚧 *Disarming Burnout Triggers*
- Systematically address burnout triggers: lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community.
- Tailor solutions for each trigger, such as gaining more recognition, adjusting workload, or resolving conflicts.
- Unresolved burnout persists until the underlying triggers are tackled.
16:12 ⚔️ *Building Burnout Body Armor*
- Prevent burnout through active recovery: using hermetic stressors like cold exposure, heat therapy, exercise, and massage.
- Active recovery helps reset the nervous system and lower long-term stress.
- Intensity matters: short bursts of intense recovery activities are more effective in fighting burnout.
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Excellent video, thank you. Favorited the vid and subscribed.
I will get back to it, but since I am in a situation I want to get out of as fast as I can (living with my narcissistic father) I will now sprint up that hill.
Amazing video - thanks a lot for the explanation. We'll implement these concepts within our team straight away - so many lightbulb moments!
Hello Rian, i have seen quite a few of your videos and honestly i am very impressed. first of all thank you! your videos have bought a positive change in my life, second of all i would like to share my situation. I am a JEE aspirant and cracking it requires months of consistent effort, along with the IQ you possess ofcourse. I actually am here to request a video or niche advice for my case and around half a billion people who face things such as: Low motivation, attraction to the other gender, procastination, burn out, lack of mental strength, sometimes even mastrubation. there are a lot of issues we face but only have one reason to go ahead............you have said bits and pieces of everything above in all of your videos spread out but trust me i would be absolutely thrilled to have your advice as an expert. i have made countless plans only to relapse to my old ways.......so i know i am doing something wrong......but what exactly is i cant figure that out........
Directly addressing these burnout triggers at work sounds like a really good way to get fired.
Rian , Rian amazing!! Love your episodes!!
Underrated channel. I am a early stage 24yo entrepreneur and ex-gaming addict who got inspired by the direct, raw approach of Andrew T. making me go full-in, eventually running into a wall. I experienced thesame you explain you did in your video in your earlier career; before the career shift. Your detailed videos are great and i am extremely thankful for your videos, and i am glad your new career work(s)(ed) better for you. You deserve it. And you also deserve to hear that you are saving me a massive chunk of energy and time, because the detail and greatly selected words for your script explain exactly to me how i can chase my desired amount of productivity. I have done 3 career shifts, and i have 5 hobbys. Of which i am good enough at none to make something big (enough) out of it. Your videos helped me align everything and made me aware of the realism i did not know at first. Thank you a whole bunch, friend. I would pay a rib out of the body to talk with you for an hour.
Always interested in talking to people who take action
i also was a gane addict until top g come out.i was depressed and my grade dropped after covid.if it wasnt.for him,i dont know where i would be today
@@bot_1-sp4sm yeah its great we are thankful, but it can be a tough fight. As Rian says in his videos; we are all good at something, but different things. After top g inspired me to pick one of the most simple and profitable business models out there, i notice how i personally just don't really enjoy it at all. But i'm trying to fall in love with the simplicity and financial reward of it, so i'm fighting my way through the burnout to make it. But it feels so contradictory.. making myself fight through my personality just because thinking the light at the end of the tunnel is worth it. Currently i have been in a burnout phase for months- the smallest tasks feel like a deadlift. While the first months felt immaculately exciting...
Like top g said some time: ''work for passion is BS. Do you think the multi-millionaire in china working with concrete is passionate about concrete? Does he like- lick it? No.'' But even when i try to apply that simple, goal-focussed thought to myself, that makes the biggest question i have these days: Just because i want big money in the fastest/simplest way, does that mean fighting my personality in this marketing business model is worth it?
he's teaching BS: "when you see a hill, sprint", NO you don't. that's what caused burnout in the first place.
dont mind those toxic people.there is always gonna be at least one hater everytime
Great video!!! Amazing breakdown, very helpful, Thanks Rian!
Great advice. I'm living proof burnout is nothing to take lightly. I'll seriously try to implement the tips in some way, even though the approach taken here is mostly for "normal" people who are in the natural rhythm of sympathetic-parasympathetic neural response. I'm not. My whole organism has been on perpetual freeze response and constant high alert mode since an accident in infancy. But even so, I can see the merit of these five approaches.
Burnout differs from depression.
Oh, yes. And anybody who has not felt the bottomless free-fall exhaustion of burnout have no clue. It's not a temporary rut, it's kind of life-threateningly compact high-speed nothingness. But you may still be able to laugh and see things from the bright side. It's more like having lost control of the body and its fuctions.
Burnout is a recognized disorder.
Yes, it is, but the usual docs do not know how to handle it. Seeking help when I just couldn't get out of bed anylonger I was diagnosed with depression. Relentlessly rejecting SSRI, claiming I was not depressed, I was called hypochondriac for four years until I got secondary illnesses due to stress and they actually started taking me seriously. Docs still didn't know what to do about it, though. Long story short: I'm now on perpetual sick leave since having been in burnout mode for the last 20 years, making it chronic. Docs have no clue what to do but tell me to "take it easy".
Identifying burnout triggers is essential.
Hearing about this one, I realise school was a 12 year sprint of cognitive blunting, boredom and systemic under-challenge. I was always one of the smarter kids, and had to just sit and wait for the others, or erase pages in my workbooks when I had ended up in flow and done too much during a lesson. That taught me to not aspire to greatness as, either I do or don't, I'm f*cked.
The right kind of hard
My parents were almost as traumatised as myself from the accident I had. They did their best, but never understood that I was never alright. I learned that life is a constant struggle, that I have to over-achieve and excel to get anything, and that I must always and foremost be nice and never be better than anybody else. That is hard, but hardly the right kind of hard, especially for a kid. The result is, of course, that I don't know how to gauge "hard" and I don't know when I've crossed the line.
Active recovery
In my teens I was athletic, but after burnout I always crash again when trying to move, as I don't know how to be kind to myself in a productive way. I've now been waiting for a year to get professional help on how to rehab out of it. Massage and therapies are not on the menu, as I can just about cover food and shelter on the meagre pension I have. But I do have internet, and I'm actively working on getting my life-long stress responses under control. I believe that exploring "The right kind of hard" is my way out. I need to re-evaluate how I treat myself and what bars I set for myself. I'm kind of in a perpetual war with myself, and this video made that clear to me in a new way. I need to make peace with myself.
I hear you --especially about the smart kid thing. Cold showers cost pennies and self massage is free, so perhaps focus there?
Great video, and some realy interesting insights into burnout and what it entails. I especially like your outlook on sustainable effort, because as important as EFFORT is, it has to be something you can remain consistent with-sometimes sticking at 80% is better, as you say, to go slow and somewhat steady so you can keep the pace up
You also need the Human Givens without which burnout is more than likely as you are not living 'in balance'. Toxic corporate or social or isolated environment can make burnout become chronic, by that stage you are looking at some level potentially of PTSD - brought on by the burnout, or potentially by other traumas outside the 'productivity goals'. If you work hard enough at something to achieve some flow state for a while be grateful and thankful it is one of the finest experiences of life.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO
Thanks for content like this.
I really need this thank you.
Rian can you cut down the length of the intros? Oftentimes I find boredom with the background information, and we already know your accomplishments introduced in other videos. I would like to know the solution faster and how it solves the problem, Thanks.
The pan/zoom camera angles are pretty strong for a talking head vid
🙏 thank you for this ✨!!
Rian Doris please make a video on flow in studying
title of this video was how to actually recharge for maximum productivity in april 2024. i tracked it with timestamp 13.43 of 18.30 min video
This is a good video. Thank you
great productin value and even better content!
Could you make a video about the right amount of time to do deep work ? Is pomodoro efficient enough or 90 min cunks or better ?
Burnout is 100% solvable when you understand the underlying neuroses and how to structure your life and day.
That chart in the thumbnail. I was just thinking that is exactly how my year usually looks.
Autotelicity?
“Hobbies are a great example of autotelic (intrinsically rewarding) activities; whether it is art, gaming, dancing, or rock climbing, we all have something we love doing regardless of external rewards.”
That can definitly be part of the solution.
thx
the best thing is learn from others experience
That was a quality video
Hi Rian, love your videos!.. Would you please do a video on defining purpose, goal setting, etc.?..
Thankl you so much What a freaking video
money solves everything
Cold showers cost pennies and self massage is free.
There is no video on screen in the end. In any of the videos I've watched.
Meanwhile me experiencing 5/6 burnout triggers simultaneously
Winning = Efficient reward for work output. We could have stopped there. No one still not in the 1% has control over this. That’s the challenge.
“Dial back a bit” lol I will tell my landlord that on the 1st when rent is due.
Great content. Would love to know who edited this video as well lol. They did an excellent job 🔥
I did 90% of it
Can you make a video for students productivity❤
Great content very valuable!!!! - you have a great way of delivering your words I do think it is overedited though very dopamine flashy sometimes difficult to fully soak in what you are saying
The title sounds like something a boss would say to make workers work more for no extra pay
Because they get others to do the work
i love you infinietly
Nice vídeo
Active recovery is the skillset I’m still not very good at and it might cost me a ton
A cold shower only costs a few cents.