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Burnout: Flying too close to the Sun?

12/12/2019

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By the end of the year, many of us feel exhausted and look forward to change of pace, including celebrating the festive season with friends and family. One December, a psychologist sighed ‘It’s been a long year’, and told me how she was eagerly awaiting the opportunity to rest and recharge her batteries… More than that, some of us will feel this year ‘It’s been a long decade’, recognising that milestones (personal like birthdays, or collective like decades) prompt us to reflect and evaluate our accomplishments and state of mind. 

There is too a growing awareness of the importance of looking after our mental health: the topic has increasingly entered our group consciousness in the United Kingdom and internationally. The stigma around mental health and wellbeing is abating, and we are not as stoic about it as we once were. We’re talking about it far more, which itself is a healthy activity. And, the World Health Organisation has recognised burnout as an occupational phenomenon in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), underscoring the increasing attention on mental wellbeing.
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From a Protagion perspective, our members ask about or allude to burnout and its consequences perhaps more than average because of the types of achievers they often are or because a number of our coaches are experienced in helping proteges to manage stress. In a recent conversation with an international mentor, she shared her own challenges with juggling her career, her young family, her studies, and her responsibilities to her parents and parents-in-law. Please sign up as a protege if you’d like to speak with our coaches about your specific circumstances. As Dr Geri Puleo says, “star employees are the ones who tend to burn out fastest”.

Other Protagion articles which touch on the topics of stress and ambition include:
  • Stanley Gabriel’s Personal Journey where he explained that he tries to set aside time to rest and recuperate: “For me what’s really helped is I am unapologetic about the time I need. I take it… finding new inspiration, gathering my thoughts, and reflecting… I’ve taken deliberate breaks when I’ve needed them.” 
  • 60+ hour work weeks and harnessing ambition where we discuss ambition, productivity, sustainability of long hours, output, and channelling your passion for success into activities which align with your long-term goals
​Read more to learn about the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), dimensions and stages of burnout, the changing dynamics of work and the impact of job-person fit, and ten techniques for dealing with stress.

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Success, Self-Doubt and Imposter Syndrome

7/12/2019

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To the outside world, you’re accomplished and successful, yet internally you have nagging doubts that your ideas and skills aren’t worthy… Many of us have an inner voice telling us we’ve made it by sheer luck or that we’re a fraud – the issue is when we believe these feelings of fraudulence. Self-doubt is normal, and we need to remember that we’re not alone in doubting ourselves. 
Even after writing eleven books and winning several prestigious awards, Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments. Albert Einstein experienced something similar: he described himself as an ‘involuntary swindler’ whose work didn’t deserve as much attention as it had received.”
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There are two broad categories of this feeling: the first when we are skilled (sometimes referred to as Imposter Syndrome) and the second when we’re new to something or lack competence. Read more to explore these, based on ideas from Elizabeth Cox, Tania Katan and Mike Cannon-Brookes. We share some techniques to manage the feelings of inadequacy, and conclude with a video of a humorous talk by Mike sharing his experiences. 

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