Get the FREE One-Month Day checklist here: www.flowstate.com/onemonthday Rían here. Thanks for watching! Ever battle that "burned out" feeling - where work feels impossible, even when you WANT to crush it? There's a science to beating burnout for good. It's about tackling the real causes, not just taking time off. With the science-backed techniques in this PDF, you can disable your burnout triggers and complete a month’s worth of work in less than a day.
I feel that way with my job right now. It's meaningless, and mindless. I've been held back my entire life from a really young age. I'm 37 now, and my potential is eating away at me like a parasite. *I want a damned CHANCE.* I'm sick of wasting my life in factories and warehouses. I want to illustrate, write, read, study math. I never got that chance as a teenager. I HAVE SO MUCH MORE CREATIVE POTENTIAL THAN THIS. IT'S EATING ME ALIVE.
I have gone through fair share of productivity content on YT since 2017. Let me tell the way you share information aka wisdom, no other does it. Your videos have increased my confidence in my ability to solve problems of my life. Thank you Rian. Listening and Learning from India💫
@@aviralarpan7350 I love the message you have left and it actually clicked something inside my brain. Love the challenge. Thanks, man. Took the screenshot and will celebrate when I'll achieve my goals. And brother life isn't linear for you to use the same mental models for different problems that life will throw towards you. Maybe you are a teen! You need to grow internally a lot throughout your life and it is a never-ending story.
summary 00:00 🧠 Burnout differs from depression and affects motivation through exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy. 02:48 🧬 Burnout is a recognized medical disorder impacting neural circuitry, leading to cognitive dysfunction. 04:39 🔑 Identifying burnout triggers (lack of control, values conflict, insufficient reward, work overload, unfairness, breakdown of community) is crucial to tackle and prevent burnout. 08:37 🎯 "The right kind of hard" tasks should offer sufficient reward, align with intrinsic motivation, and challenge upper limits to prevent burnout. 12:30 🛠 Address burnout triggers by solving the root cause in the workplace for comprehensive prevention. 16:12 🛡 Prevent burnout by actively recovering through various stress-relief methods like cold-induced thermogenesis, heat therapy, exercise, massage, and myofascial release.
The amount of value in the content shared here is phenomenal! Please keep sharing this for free for those of us that cannot afford access to such information.
this is a therapeutic session in value of thousands of dollars, broken down in 18 minutes. Listening closely and breaking it down step by step as you do it is fantastic. Thanks for SO MUCH value!!!!!!!!
Here is a summary of the video in bullet points: Burnout is a distinct medical condition characterized by exhaustion, cynicism, and low self-efficacy It is caused by prolonged exposure to burnout triggers like lack of control, unfairness, insufficient reward, etc. Burnout alters the brain's neural pathways in a way that increases negative emotions and decreases self-control To prevent burnout, one must identify their personal burnout triggers and address the root causes It's important to choose the "right kind of hard" work that plays to your strengths and provides sufficient reward One should avoid staying "too close to the line" and overexerting themselves by regularly assessing capacity In some cases, intentionally increasing workload short-term can boost success and motivation to overcome burnout Triggers like lack of control, unfairness, etc. must be systematically disarmed through direct communication Building "burnout body armor" with recovery techniques like cold therapy, heat therapy and exercise can help too
the most incredible thing was not only the detailed knowledge regarding burnout mechanisms, but the warmth of feeling truly understood. This feeling alone has already greatly alleviated my state of burnout in a way I could never have imagined, thank you man
As someone that has struggled with burnout for years, and recently getting far worse, I greatly appreciate the timeliness of this video. The two points that really hit hone for me are 1) feeling like what I do has no meaning or proportional reward for a given effort, and 2) always red-lining it. I think 2 compounds the effects of 1. It has been years since a 4 week vacation or sabbatical has truly felt restoring.
I usually don’t write comments, but there is so much value in here, your videos deserve 100m views as it seems like they can change people’s lives; make economies more productive etc starting to apply your suggestions!
I love this! I'm currently using the "Third Bird" energy management, doing my writing/heavy cognitive and creative tasks between 9am-2:30pm ON TOP of drinking coffee an hour after I wake up (according to your other videos) and PUSHING myself past the "Struggle" phase, then taking a small break /"Releasing" and then back into FLOW STATE! Additionally, I've been using the 'pomodoro' technique to create "CERTAINTY WINDOWS" where I can fully concentrate, without distraction on my writing! It's been an amazing week of productivity! Thank you guys so much for the help! Please, keep pumping out these content because it's helping so many people! Appreciate it!
This is such a magnificent delivery of Ideals, the way you verbalize your thoughts and the concepts you have formulated is nothing short of amazing, your precision when it comes to choosing the appropriate words is just Brilliant! I wish to be as orally articulated as you one day!
This. is. incredible. I rarely comment on RU-vid videos but I've just recently discovered your channel and WOW I am blown away. I hope I get to thank you in person one day. I've been studying human transformation for the last few years and I've recently decided to lean deep into research around productivity. I've noticed many patterns for success and failure in myself and in clients and it's incredible how you apply the science to things I've observed yet never fully had the words for. The science you provide also confirms some of my suspicions that I couldn't tell if I was just "making up". I am learning so much and implementing all of this like a MF! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
While recovering from f our flow, can we appreciate the beauty of his soundtracks?! Phenomenal! Thank You Rian for such high-quality content-- by far the best on RU-vid as of today!
Thank you Rian for your research with everything, for school I have to have a presentation about something I'm passionate about, and I'm going to talk about the Flow state. You're the reason I'm so interested in all of this. Much appreciated.
One of the rare videos which gives the practically implementable tips along with a brief & accurate conceptual background combined with Quality graihics.❤❤
I never realized but these burnout triggers can definitely be present at home in your family. This video is huge. Needs to be hours long, going into more detail.
This immediately went into my ‘video bible’ playlist. Listening to you run this down, I realized I may have been misattributing my burnout as depression. Going to give the guidance on fixing and future proofing against burnout a try! Let’s see if it works for a motivated cog in the fortune 500 machine
Hello Rian, i have seen quite a few of your videos and honestly i am very impressed. first of all thank you! your videos have bought a positive change in my life, second of all i would like to share my situation. I am a JEE aspirant and cracking it requires months of consistent effort, along with the IQ you possess ofcourse. I actually am here to request a video or niche advice for my case and around half a billion people who face things such as: Low motivation, attraction to the other gender, procastination, burn out, lack of mental strength, sometimes even mastrubation. there are a lot of issues we face but only have one reason to go ahead............you have said bits and pieces of everything above in all of your videos spread out but trust me i would be absolutely thrilled to have your advice as an expert. i have made countless plans only to relapse to my old ways.......so i know i am doing something wrong......but what exactly is i cant figure that out........
Man, this was one of the most entertaining self education content. Rian, you have nailed the art the of visual storytelling. Kudos for sharing and rooting for success.
Great video, and some realy interesting insights into burnout and what it entails. I especially like your outlook on sustainable effort, because as important as EFFORT is, it has to be something you can remain consistent with-sometimes sticking at 80% is better, as you say, to go slow and somewhat steady so you can keep the pace up
My Notes from this video: Burnout is typical. It is exhaustion, cynicism and low self efficacy. Breakout is not from only from one trigger ## Six burnout trigger 1. Lack of control 2. Value conflicts 3. Insufficient reward 4. work overload 5. unfairness 6. breakdown of community # How to not burnout ### Choose the right kind of hard play to your strength, have a good reward for your task The right kind of hard is fueled by intrinsic motivation, if we have curiosity, mastery, autotelicity, purpose and automony lead to more flow state You want most of the challenge to be tilted toward the upper end of a task, get from good to great ### Don’t stay to close to the line run at 80% of productivity. if you do 110% you get burnout and it takes long to get back to work. Start you daily capacity from 0 to 10 if you are at 8 or 9 slow down ### 3.If you see a hill sprint Leaning in is the solution to burnout. You can work out of burnout. Getting results is great against burnout. Make this only for a limited short time. ### Disarm the burnout triggers Detect and look for the triggers. For lack of control control on one thing For work overload take time off and recovery. Insufficient reward ask more for rewards unfairness don’t compare yourself to other people. Values conflicts contrast the core values. Breakdown community make space to people to talk with them ### Build your burnout body armor Do Active recovery. Use hermetics stress for this do mediation or a walk for this for a short time in the day. Cold showers, sauna, exercise, massage.
Rian can you cut down the length of the intros? Oftentimes I find boredom with the background information, and we already know your accomplishments introduced in other videos. I would like to know the solution faster and how it solves the problem, Thanks.
You also need the Human Givens without which burnout is more than likely as you are not living 'in balance'. Toxic corporate or social or isolated environment can make burnout become chronic, by that stage you are looking at some level potentially of PTSD - brought on by the burnout, or potentially by other traumas outside the 'productivity goals'. If you work hard enough at something to achieve some flow state for a while be grateful and thankful it is one of the finest experiences of life.
00:02 Understanding burnout and its impact 02:03 Recognizing and understanding burnout 04:06 Understand the six burnout triggers and their impact on mental well-being. 06:06 Addressing burnout triggers at work is essential to prevent burnout. 08:14 Working hard without burning out requires intrinsic motivation and aligning with your strengths. 10:16 Sustainable effort beats an endless sprint every time. 12:23 Lean in to work strategically to combat burnout 14:20 Addressing Burnout Triggers 16:14 Active recovery is key to preventing burnout 17:53 Physiological burnout proofing through cold plunges, heat therapy, exercise, and massage.
Great advice. I'm living proof burnout is nothing to take lightly. I'll seriously try to implement the tips in some way, even though the approach taken here is mostly for "normal" people who are in the natural rhythm of sympathetic-parasympathetic neural response. I'm not. My whole organism has been on perpetual freeze response and constant high alert mode since an accident in infancy. But even so, I can see the merit of these five approaches. Burnout differs from depression. Oh, yes. And anybody who has not felt the bottomless free-fall exhaustion of burnout have no clue. It's not a temporary rut, it's kind of life-threateningly compact high-speed nothingness. But you may still be able to laugh and see things from the bright side. It's more like having lost control of the body and its fuctions. Burnout is a recognized disorder. Yes, it is, but the usual docs do not know how to handle it. Seeking help when I just couldn't get out of bed anylonger I was diagnosed with depression. Relentlessly rejecting SSRI, claiming I was not depressed, I was called hypochondriac for four years until I got secondary illnesses due to stress and they actually started taking me seriously. Docs still didn't know what to do about it, though. Long story short: I'm now on perpetual sick leave since having been in burnout mode for the last 20 years, making it chronic. Docs have no clue what to do but tell me to "take it easy". Identifying burnout triggers is essential. Hearing about this one, I realise school was a 12 year sprint of cognitive blunting, boredom and systemic under-challenge. I was always one of the smarter kids, and had to just sit and wait for the others, or erase pages in my workbooks when I had ended up in flow and done too much during a lesson. That taught me to not aspire to greatness as, either I do or don't, I'm f*cked. The right kind of hard My parents were almost as traumatised as myself from the accident I had. They did their best, but never understood that I was never alright. I learned that life is a constant struggle, that I have to over-achieve and excel to get anything, and that I must always and foremost be nice and never be better than anybody else. That is hard, but hardly the right kind of hard, especially for a kid. The result is, of course, that I don't know how to gauge "hard" and I don't know when I've crossed the line. Active recovery In my teens I was athletic, but after burnout I always crash again when trying to move, as I don't know how to be kind to myself in a productive way. I've now been waiting for a year to get professional help on how to rehab out of it. Massage and therapies are not on the menu, as I can just about cover food and shelter on the meagre pension I have. But I do have internet, and I'm actively working on getting my life-long stress responses under control. I believe that exploring "The right kind of hard" is my way out. I need to re-evaluate how I treat myself and what bars I set for myself. I'm kind of in a perpetual war with myself, and this video made that clear to me in a new way. I need to make peace with myself.
He said it is medicallybacknowledged as one -- which means the medical establishment labeled it that way. And it would depend on how extreme it is. It can become life threatening and definitely impact mental health.
Winning = Efficient reward for work output. We could have stopped there. No one still not in the 1% has control over this. That’s the challenge. “Dial back a bit” lol I will tell my landlord that on the 1st when rent is due.
Really great insights! You tackled the topic from a NO BS perspective! Question, what to do in case you can’t change the current environment even tho its « the hard you didn’t chose » should I focus on active recovery protocol? In my scenario i have 1 year left to get my degree (in something I totally hate so I wanted to push through at least for this year between my degree and business and then switch to other things that I really want!
Autotelicity? “Hobbies are a great example of autotelic (intrinsically rewarding) activities; whether it is art, gaming, dancing, or rock climbing, we all have something we love doing regardless of external rewards.”
I'm also a student from a 3rd world country bro, don't let that stop you, control what you can, I'm sure there's more than you can control, you just haven't identify those things yet.
OK it is the 80-20 rule. YOU see if you go 100% all the time C`mon you aren't but you burn out no one can go 100% at all time. INSTEAD always go 80% with a 20 % reserve. NOW when you get advanced at your 80% you can gauge those around you AND just do enough to keep in front THEN when they make some effort, or your competition tries to beat you. That extra reserve is there to keep winning and avoid burnout. BUT you have to get your 80% up high.
Dear@@shomshirunnesa5228 i was being sarcastic. The video, the flashing images and the way he speaks are too intense. Whoever is struggling with burn out or is tired will definetly have a hard time watching this. Cheers.
