I grew up with my identical twin,

who was an incredibly loving brother. Now, one thing about being a twin is, it makes you an expert at spotting favoritism. If his cookie was even slightly bigger than my cookie, I had questions, and clearly, I wasn't starving.

Ladies and gentlemen, on today's show, we're interviewing a best-selling author about his new book.

The new book is called Mind Over Grind, How to Break Free When Work Highjacks Your Life.

What? Mind Over Grind. How to break free when work hijacks your life. Here to talk about it is the man with

the plan, uh, the expert of choice. Guy, welcome to the Thromptime show. How are you, sir?

I am well. And thank you for having me. Now, Guy Winch, some people say, I think I've heard that name somewhere.

Walk us through your background.

Like, where did you come from previous to being on today's show?

This is my fourth book.

I also have a bunch of TED Talk, 65 million views.

Now, when did you feel like you were gaining traction as an author?

Like, at what point did you feel like that you gaining traction as an author? Like, at what point did you

feel like that you, guy, were really beginning to gain traction as an author? So many people write books, but when did you feel like, well, people are listening to what you're writing or reading what you're writing? My first book was called The Squeaky Wheel. I was like, oh, it's going to be all around the world. And every country that bought the rights said to me,

oh, we bought it in Poland because, you know, Polish are the biggest complainers. And the Chinese,

we bought it here because, you know, the Chinese, we're the biggest complainers. As if it was,

that was a mark of privilege to have. But that's what made me start to think that, oh, wow, if so many

countries are going to have my books, maybe I'll have more than one book.

And with your new book, what inspired you to write your newest book? Like, what was the

motivation that caused you to say, well, I'm going to devote thousands of hours of my time to

researching a subject and then writing a book about it. What was that motivating factor?

Well, I start the story of burnout. The workplace has changed. Over the past few years,

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