Second Cup: Cope with being overwhelmed
Before Breakfast
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🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Tips from Designing Your Work Life for surviving busy times
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| 0:37.2 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | Today's tip is about how to cope with being overwhelmed. |
| 0:49.0 | By recognizing the exact nature of your overwhelming situation you can take steps to make life feel more in control |
| 0:57.8 | Today's tip comes from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans new book designing your work life |
| 1:03.4 | The follow-up to Design Your Life, this book teaches how to use design principles to improve your |
| 1:08.7 | time at the office. |
| 1:11.0 | We've probably all been in bad jobs, but in many cases, Burnett and Evans |
| 1:15.4 | right, people find themselves in jobs that they generally like. It's just that |
| 1:19.6 | circumstances are stressful. These stressful circumstances come in different flavors, which Burnett |
| 1:26.1 | and Evans call the Hydra overwhelm, the happy overwhelm, and the hyper-over overwhelm. They required different steps to mitigate. |
| 1:37.0 | The Hydra overwhelm takes its name from the multi-headed Greek monster that grew new heads every time one was chopped off. |
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