Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

The recent focus on burnout is really fascinating because there's some kind of obvious things right there's the fact that when we kind of annihilated the separation between work and home in terms of like the actual physical

It's all happening. It's working and home.

Right. You know, you used to have a much easier time creating boundaries.

You know, that's sort of like, okay, so I'm leaving the place where I do that thing called work.

Even though the boundaries had been blurred a lot more in the recent years through technology,

there was still some level of boundary.

And now when it all exists in one space, most people they never learned how to create

that boundary within the same space it's a whole different thing and then you pile

on an existential crisis a global global health crisis, extreme stress and anxiety about

well-being, and we don't have the cognitive bandwidth to actually figure out how to

remake our work world in a way that actually allows us to breathe.

And so I think that's part of it.

I think that's what a lot of people are pointing to.

They're like basically it's the conflation of everything happening in one place, the demands of the workplace not going away, and people not being structured and set up and having the systems and process and boundaries to do it.

But I think that's not the whole story.

You know, because I think we're pointing to that. But what I think we're missing is the fact that this is not a new problem.

It's been exacerbated for sure, but burnout has been on the rise on every survey, every bit of research that I've seen for the last 10 to 15 years.

Right, so this is just kind of bringing it to the surface because it was the perfect storm of circumstance,

but it's been going on for a long time and I think there's an underlying issue and that is that the average person tends to wake up in the morning and go to do

something that is not necessarily well aligned with a fundamental impulse for work

that would nourish them in a deeper way and over time

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