832: How to Restore Yourself from Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach
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How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Leading burnout expert Dr. Christina Maslach shares the fundamental causes of burnout and what individuals and organizations can do to fix them.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why burnout isn’t just an individual problem
2) The 6 key areas of job mismatch that cause burnout
3) What to do when you’re burnt out
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— ABOUT CHRISTINA —
Dr. Christina Maslach is Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley, and the co-creator of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the most widely used instrument for measuring job burnout, and has written numerous articles and books, including The Truth About Burnout. In 2020 she received the Scientific Reviewing award from the National Academy of Sciences for her writing on burnout.
In 2021, she was named by Business Insider as one of the top 100 people transforming business. She also consults on the identification of sources of burnout and potential interventions.
• Book: The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs
• Website: Christina Maslach, UC Berkeley
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 832 with Dr. Christina Maslack. |
| 0:24.0 | We are talking burnout and Christina is really one of the pioneering researchers in fact |
| 0:29.5 | to even popularize the very term burnout as it applies to us human beings. |
| 0:34.4 | So we got a boatload of wisdom coming from her. |
| 0:37.0 | You'll learn one why burnout isn't just an individual problem, two, the six key areas |
| 0:41.7 | of job mismatch that cause burnout and three, what to do when you are burnt out. |
| 0:46.2 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to addos |
| 0:49.0 | we've referenced, please pay a visit and awesome at your job.com slash EP 832. |
| 0:54.5 | If it's your first time listening, welcome. |
| 0:56.8 | So good to have you. |
| 0:58.3 | I recommend you start at the beginning in terms of checking out the episode sorted by |
| 1:04.3 | earliest so you can see episode 0, 0, 0 start here and then ABCDEF, |
| 1:09.8 | the little sampler of the sorts of topics that we talk about to get a good feel |
| 1:15.8 | for what we're all about. |
| 1:17.2 | Welcome. |
| 1:17.6 | So good to have you and so good to have Dr. Christina Maslack. |
| 1:21.5 | She's a professor of psychology emerita at the University of California, |
| 1:25.0 | Berkeley and the co-creator of the Maslack burnout inventory. |
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