1141: How to Stop Burnout Before It Starts with Guy Winch

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Guy Winch shares the simple strategies for taking back control of your mind, energy, and attention from work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to stop rumination loops

2) The trick to dealing with difficult situations beyond your control

3) The overlooked key to build into your weekly schedule

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— ABOUT GUY —

Guy Winch Ph.D. is an internationally renowned psychologist who advocates for integrating the science of emotional health into our daily lives. His science based self-help books have been translated into 30 languages and his 3 viral TED Talks have garnered over 35 million views.

He advises start-ups in the mental health space, worked with the US and UK governments, and has created emotional health programs for fortune 500 companies. His work has been featured in the NY Times, WSJ, the Boston Globe, CNN, Time, Psychology Today, and other major outlets. He is the co-host of the Ambie Nominated Dear Therapists podcast. He lives and maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

• Book: Mind Over Grind: How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life

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• Website: GuyWinch.com

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0:00.0	How we curate the rest period, the break period, the recovery options, is super important,
0:16.5	and it's the last thing we think of doing when we need it most, because we just put our head down and let's just get through it.
0:22.7	But we need to be more strategic and more deliberate.
0:27.1	You have to remind yourself that you're not physically tired.
0:30.3	You're mentally tired.
0:31.2	Your body is deceiving you.
0:32.5	Your mind is deceiving you into thinking that you're physically tired.
0:40.6	That's Guy Winch.
0:41.9	He's an internationally renowned psychologist who advocates for integrating the science of emotional health into our daily lives.
0:47.3	His new book, Mind of a Grind, How to Break Free When Work Hijacks Your Life,
0:50.8	talks about the necessary mindset shifts required to thrive in the relentless
0:56.0	grind of today's workplace. So you'll learn one, how to stop rumination loops. Two, the trick
1:01.3	to dealing with difficult situations beyond your control. And three, the overlooked key to build
1:07.9	into your weekly schedule. And if you want a quick summary write-up of Guy's actionable wisdom, I recommend you sign up
1:13.9	for the free Golden Nugget email newsletter, which you can find it awesome at your job.com.
1:17.6	I'm Pete McItis.
1:18.4	This is How to Be Awesome at your job.
1:19.9	And now, here's Guy.
1:26.0	Guy, welcome.
1:27.4	Thank you for having me.
1:28.7	Well, I'm excited to chat about mind over grind.
1:32.2	Could you kick us off with your dramatic story about being stuck in an elevator?
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