238: How to Handle Burnout
The Cardone Zone
Grant Cardone
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Are you burned out? Grant gets asked, "how do you do all this stuff you do?" and "how do you balance it all?" First off you don't want balance. Burning out is a reduction of fuel or substance. You are not a candle so you can't burn out. When the things you do no longer fulfill you, you might start to feel burned out. You need a reason.
1. Understand the definition of burnout. A rocket runs out of fuel so it stops ascending to its target. You have fuel too. The body needs food—fuel. But what do you need? What you need is purpose.
2. Find more purpose. Purpose is fuel that can keep you ascending. Your purpose can sustain you.
The truth is you need to be obsessed or be burned out. The average burn out because average doesn't get you excited. Are obsessed or average?
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| 1:32.9 | talking about burnout. Number one question I get asked. Probably the biggest question I get asked, |
| 1:38.7 | how do you handle the burnout, Grant? Particularly with the release of our new book, Be Obscester, |
| 1:44.1 | Be Average. Be Obscester, Be Average as we change our backdrop. I get asked, man, how do you do all this |
| 1:53.2 | stuff you're doing, man, and not get burnout? How do you balance? Maybe what you want to do is look |
| 2:00.0 | up the word burnout, the reduction of a fuel or substance to nothing through use or combustion, |
| 2:08.0 | the reduction of a fuel or substance to nothing through the use or combustion. That's Robert Syslow. |
| 2:18.4 | That's the first definition, the original definition of burnout before psychiatrist got involved. |
| 2:25.7 | Was the reduction of a fuel or substance? Now, what you'd have to ask yourself right now, |
| 2:30.4 | what is the fuel or substance that we're talking about? Because you understand everything here, |
| 2:37.9 | the reduction means lowering of fuel or substance or what fuel or substance? See, it is my belief |
| 2:46.0 | that the fuel or substance is right here. It's obsessions, the obsessions you have. What is the |
| 2:51.5 | obsessions you have? In the moment that you, I'm burnout, dude, I'm burnout, man, I'm burnout, |
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