Leah Weiss on Workplace Burnout
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Leah Weiss is a researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author. She teaches compassionate leadership at the Stanford School of Business and is a principal teacher and founding faculty member of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program, conceived by the Dalai Lama. In 2019, she co-founded Skylyte, a company that specializes in using the latest neuroscience and behavior change to empower high-performing leaders and managers to prevent burnout for themselves and their teams.
In this episode, Eric and Leah Weiss discuss workplace burnout: the definition, signs, causes of, and treatment for this debilitating condition.
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Leah Weiss and I Discuss Workplace Burnout…
- Her story of suffering workplace burnout
- The definition and signs of burnout
- The individual, team, and corporate level causes of burnout
- The difference between burnout and depression or anxiety
- The difference between burnout and compassion fatigue
- The role of boundaries in compassion and empathy
- How to know when you need to change your external circumstances
- How to know when it’s internal work within you that need to do
- Ways to go through the process of life change without blowing everything up
- Tools and questions to use for discernment about elements of change within your life
- The role and value of other people who you can turn to for support and guidance
- Paths to make work more meaningful
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever feel like life is just one problem after another? |
| 0:03.9 | You finally feel like maybe there's a break and then BAM another problem. |
| 0:08.4 | This is how it is for many of us, but there is a better way to respond. |
| 0:13.1 | A way of responding that brings greater ease into your life and returns some of the energy |
| 0:17.9 | that the problems drain from you. We are hosting a free live masterclass on Sunday, |
| 0:22.9 | February 27th called Learn the Spiritual Habit to Unlock Energy and Ease in your life, |
| 0:29.0 | even if each day seems to bring a fresh pile of problems. |
| 0:32.9 | In it, I will teach you how to tap into the resources that are already within you, |
| 0:37.3 | so that life feels less like a never-ending fight and more like an ever-evolving dance. |
| 0:43.2 | You will learn the number one source of unhappiness that drains your energy |
| 0:47.2 | and keeps you feeling stuck and a simple mindset shift. You can make right away |
| 0:53.0 | so that life doesn't feel like such a constant struggle. This will be a live event and you'll |
| 0:57.9 | have a chance to interact with me and with each other. I've really grown to love these community |
| 1:03.6 | events where we get to meet each other and deepen our connections. I hope that you can become |
| 1:08.4 | part of that. Go to 1ufeet.net-slashlive to learn more and register for this free event. |
| 1:14.3 | Again, that's 1ufeet.net-slashlive and I really would love the chance to meet you and see you there. |
| 1:21.6 | I had just turned 40 when we spoke last time. You know, some of these symbolic ages, |
| 1:26.8 | I feel like really help us ask the questions around, am I where I'm supposed to be in my life? |
| 1:41.6 | Welcome to the 1ufeet. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the |
| 1:46.8 | thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, |
| 1:52.5 | ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward |
| 1:58.8 | negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
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