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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. If you're feeling burned out, it might not be about working too much, but rather thinking too much about your job.

Psychologist Guy Wynch's 2019 archive talk explores how you can stop ruminating about tomorrow's

tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques. They're aimed at helping

you truly relax and recharge. I wanted to be a psychologist since I was a teenager, and I spent years pursuing that one goal.

I opened my private practice as soon as I was licensed.

It was a risky move, not getting a day job at a hospital or a clinic,

but within one year, my practice was doing quite well,

and I was making more money than I ever made before.

Of course, I was a full-time student my entire life.

I could have worked at McDonald's

and made more money than I ever made before.

That one year mark came on a Friday night in July.

I walked home to my apartment

and got into the elevator with a neighbor

who was a doctor in the ER.

The elevator rose,

then it shuddered and stalled between floors,

and the man who dealt with emergencies for a living,

began poking at the buttons and banging on the door,

saying, this is my nightmare, this is my nightmare.

And I was like, and this is my nightmare.

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