391: Preventing Burnout by Examining your Emotions with Dr. Shawn C. Jones
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Shawn Jones discusses the burnout epidemic and how mindfulness, reflection, and compassion can be used to combat it.
You’ll Learn:
1) Three ways people experience burnout
2) How to re-personalize what you’ve depersonalized
3) Four best practices for preventing burnout
About Shawn
Shawn C. Jones MD, FACS is a board-certified ear, nose, and throat physician, head and neck surgeon with 30 years of experience in medicine and a thriving ENT practice in Paducah, Kentucky. He’s on a mission to combat the effects of the growing physician burnout epidemic by sharing his own inspiring story of recovery.
Dr. Jones shares his story of burnout and recovery in his book, “Finding Heart in Art: A Surgeon’s Renaissance Approach to Healing Modern Medical Burnout.”
Items Mentioned in this Show:
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- Shawn’s website: www.DrShawnCJones.com
- Shawn’s book: Finding Heart In Art: A Surgeon’s Renaissance Approach To Healing Modern Medical Burnout
- Tool: Headspace
- Tool: Calm
- Research: Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
- Research: “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior
- Research: Social Evaluation by Preverbal Infants
- Book: Compassion – Bridging Practice and Science by Tania Singer and Matthias Bolz
- Book: The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It by Chistina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
- Book: George Washington: A Biography by Washington Irving
- Book: The Voice of the Heart: A Call to Full Living by Chip Dodd
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 391 with Dr. Sean Jones. Sean is talking to us about |
| 0:24.5 | burnout. He's got some great wisdom from experience and research so you'll learn |
| 0:29.2 | one three ways people experience burnout to how to repersonalize what you've depersonalized, |
| 0:34.9 | and three, for best practices for preventing burnout. |
| 0:37.8 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, or the links to Abbs we've referenced, |
| 0:40.7 | you'll find it over at also at your job. |
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| 1:23.7 | Dr. Sean C Jones is a board certified ear, nose, |
| 1:27.3 | and throat physician, head and neck surgeon |
| 1:29.2 | with over 30 years of experience in medicine |
| 1:31.4 | and a thriving E&T practice in Paducah, Kentucky. |
| 1:34.5 | He's on a mission to combat the effects of the growing physician burnout epidemic by sharing |
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