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The Mark Divine Show

The Big Four Skills and Dealing with Burnout

The Mark Divine Show

Mark Divine

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, Mark talks about how to use the Big Four skills to manage the burnout that many of us are experiencing in our current VUCA environment. Hear how to use: Box Breathing - use breathing to manage anxiety and anger Positive internal dialogue - our brains are predisposed toward negativity, so we need to find ways to recognize and concentrate on positivity Contextualize - is this perceived problem going to be important in even 5 years, 5 months or even 5 minutes? Kno...

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0:00.0

Dout is eliminated through action, but it's the type of action that is important.

0:19.0

Welcome back to the Unreal Mind Podcast. This is your host, Mark Devine. Super stoked to have you here today.

0:33.0

You know, I'm really busy just focusing on what I do, which is training people to be mentally tough and resilient and awesome leaders.

0:41.0

Writing, working on my doctorate is a new thing, and running my business and podcasting that I never really take the time to look at how things are doing, how is it working?

0:55.0

I was actually on a podcast with someone else today, and they said, yeah, I wanted to talk to you. I was impressed that you have the number one health show on Apple.

1:04.0

I was like, really? I didn't know idea. How cool is that? We're one of the top 30. We're in the top 30.

1:11.0

So thank you. I bring that up to say thank you. A, I was kind of surprised. Pretty cool. And B, I couldn't do it without you. So thank you, thank you.

1:21.0

Thank you. Thank you. Please continue to share this podcast if you find a valuable end to rate it, because it helps.

1:27.0

Obviously helps those stats, and we're going to do a major kind of revamp of the podcast show and up level everything in the first quarter of 22.

1:39.0

So we're working on that right now. And so you can expect to hear a little bit more when that gets closer. So I'm pretty excited about that.

1:47.0

So yeah, we're going to keep doing this. And also, I was surprised to learn that this is my eighth season of doing this. Holy schmolly.

1:53.0

And no idea. Time flies, doesn't it? Well, today, it's going to be a little shorter than I'm doing a solo cast.

2:01.0

We've gotten really good feedback on the solo cast. So hopefully you'll find them valuable. You know, it's great to interview people, but sometimes great to just talk to you directly.

2:09.0

And so this will probably be a little shorter. Also, I want to address this issue of burnout.

2:16.0

I've been seeing a lot of information, a lot of news studies, a lot of people just feeling that completely burned out. And that's understandable.

2:24.0

They're burned out from all the negative fighting in politics.

2:30.0

Burned out from all this COVID and burned out from all this vaccine bullshit.

2:36.0

And we don't know what to believe anymore. So we're burned out from fake news and people pointing fingers about fake news.

2:45.0

We're burned out from working at home on Zoom all the time.

2:50.0

Gosh, I just did a four day immersion weekend at Pepperdine, where I'm getting my doctorate and global leadership and change.

2:56.0

Really excited. We're going to learn more about that as I learn more.

3:00.0

And about a third of the students were attending through Zoom, and we're sitting in a classroom and they're on Zoom.

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