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

Eight years ago, two years into launching the Huffington Post, I collapsed from exhaustion, burn out and sleep deprivation and that suddenly me on this journey recognizing that it wasn't just me

that our whole world is suffering from what a Belgian philosopher is called civilization's disease, burnout.

And that we are all living under the collective delusion that burnout is the only way to succeed.

And I'm really excited now that modern science is proving this wrong.

And that's why at the end of Thrive, I have 55 pages of scientific endnotes to prove that in fact contrary to what we have believed for decades

sleep, meditation, pauses to renew ourselves,

our performance enhancements on tools.

We have done it wrong, you know,

we've been congratulating people for working 24-7, for not taking care of themselves, not taking a vacation,

and all these things make people actually less productive and less creative and less healthy.

In Germany, for example, a lot of companies are taking measures to reduce stress in the workplace

because they are seeing the impact of burnout on the bottom line.

If your boss expects you to be on all the time in case they send you an email,

you can never really unwind and truly recharge and therefore you're not going to be as effective in the morning.

We implemented first of all two nap rooms.

At first there was a lot of eye rolling because you know here we are in the middle of New York City the city that never sleeps

People sort of said to me is anybody going to be seen walking into a nap room? Well, of course they're always full now and people have appreciated the

fact that they can go have a nap for 20 minutes and instead of having a third

cinnamon ban or a fifth cup of coffee.

We also have yoga, meditation and breathing classes,

healthy, free snacks everywhere,

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