Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, how successful start-up founders are finding themselves overwhelmed by the experience of doing well.

It kind of consumes me and it becomes everything that I am. I am suffering more with panic attacks than I have done in a long, long time. And I do

constantly just feel like on the edge of like puking and feeling unwell, really. Yes, in today's

program, we're asking our young professionals, especially, falling victim to the myth that overwork

delivers success. I think there's a persistent belief that more hours equals greater productivity.

The basic science says there is a limit to people's capacity in a week to do excellent work.

Avoiding burnout. That's Business Daily from the BBC.

At the start of this year, an article appeared on the BuzzFeed News website that quickly went viral.

It described what it called millennial burnout, the phenomenon of young professionals in their 20s and 30s,

battling, it seems, often with simple administrative tasks while still holding down dynamic and successful careers.

Those people are our theme today.

In an era where it's become cool, aspirational to turn yourself into a startup entrepreneur,

a Mark Zuckerberg or a Cheryl Sandberg, if you will, are these young people sucked into

that mythology struggling to cope?

All you got to tell me now is wow, wow, wow, wow, welcome to the working week.

In life and in business, you are either on the offense or you're on the defense.

Way too many of you are sitting here right now and thinking you're in the middle.

There is no middle.

Life is about persuading people.

Life is about influencing people people. Life is about

influencing people. And fear is the invisible force that will make you ineffective at that.

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