How to stop finding your self-worth through your job (w/ Gloria Chan Packer) | How to Be a Better Human

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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For some of us it's easy to lose ourselves in our work. But a lack of boundaries between your personal and work life is something mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer would warn you twice about. Gloria speaks about the perils of gaining your sense of self-worth from your job, discusses her experience with burnout and stress and shares empowering insights on how to shift our perspectives to create – and maintain – a healthy distance. This is an episode of the podcast How to Be a Better Human, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. Listen to How to Be a Better Human wherever you are listening to this. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	Hey everyone, Elise Hugh here.
0:12.5	Today is our last episode of our special business series.
0:16.2	We hope that no matter how you think about work and business, you found actionable inspiring
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0:24.3	Our last episode is from how to be a better human, a show where my friend, comedian Chris
0:29.4	Duffy interviews great thinkers about the big ideas and small changes that can improve
0:34.1	our lives.
0:35.3	In this episode, he speaks with Gloria Chan Packer about how to see yourself within and
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