Work is not your family | Gloria Chan Packer

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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You may need to hear this (if you haven't already): your job is not your family. While you can develop meaningful relationships with your colleagues, calling work your family can actually breed burnout and be detrimental to your mental and emotional health. Mental wellness educator Gloria Chan Packer walks through the exercises you need to shift your perspective and redraw the boundaries between your work and personal life, so you can feel freer and more empowered.

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.8	Had I gotten to see today's talk in person, I would have been in the audience clapping
0:11.5	and nodding along to Speaker Gloria Chan Packer.
0:15.0	Because in this 2022 talk, from Ted X UT Austin, the workplace mental health educator
0:20.4	gives us a clear case for why we need boundaries between our work and non-work, and the steps
0:25.8	to take to do just that for more fulfilling, meaningful lives.
0:30.8	That's after the break.
0:32.8	Hey, Ted Talks Daily listeners, I'm Adam Grant.
0:36.5	I hosted another podcast from the Ted Audio Collective.
0:39.5	It's called Workless, and it's about the science making work not suck.
0:44.0	Next time.
0:45.0	You want to ask, what do people care about here, what do people get really rewarded for,
0:50.6	if they violate these norms or behaviors, what do they get really punished for?
0:56.0	How to recognize a company's culture from the outside, and strengthen it from the inside.
1:00.6	Find work life on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
1:07.2	We're like family.
1:09.4	This is a phrase that's become quite popular in our places of work.
1:14.3	It's a phrase that started in the last decade or two to try to elicit feelings of warmth
1:18.8	and belonging, and really that cool culture vibe.
1:22.8	The laid-back break rooms with the beanbag tears and the beer on tap and those tight-knit
1:28.1	teams that got through everything together like a family.
1:32.5	It's a phrase that started with positive intent and has had positive outcome.
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