Hey folks, Scott Weingart here, and this is the mCrit podcast today on the podcast a mind of the resuscitation

It's the episode. It's been a while and I think this one's a good topic. This is a podcast on tension and

relaxation. Hey, before we get into it, you're listening to the free version of this podcast and now this is a

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Another way for thinking about this is the dichotomous flow versus burnout. I've been doing coaching for a while, performance

coaching and productivity coaching and one of the topics that keeps coming up on both ends of the spectrum.

People who are coming burnt out and people who are really at the top of their game is this tension between

tension and relaxation. I had a fellow and he was just an angry guy about so many things delightful, but just angry.

And he there's few things that would get him as incensed as the discussion of what many hospitals were doing to address burnout

and the ridiculous bringing an ice cream truck to the ED on a Sunday or giving you a Starbucks gift certificate and made him

just so mad because they really are just they're not even band-aids on the problem. I think they're the most, you know,

scant cosmetic patches that do have no structural integrity whatsoever to actually address the problems of why people are

burning out in emergency medicine. And I think to some extent as well, critical care. The thing I keep coming back to when I'm

discussing this stuff with clients is a concept that came out of the one of my favorite books of all time called The Art of

Learning by Josh Wateskin. And Wateskin was a chess prodigy when he was a kid. He was the inspiration for the movie searching for

Bobby Fisher. And after his chess career went on to be a world champion in Tai Chi and then jujitsu and now in a weird

boarding with a sale sport that I can't quite wrap my head around. But the point is he is someone who has multi-domain

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