The Importance of Balancing Service and Self-Care in Leadership #shorts

From all the research that the McKinsey Health Institute has done that we've been doing, what I find is, look, in workplaces with 20% thrive and 80% struggle, that's a broken workplace. There is always more and more tension. As I'm getting older, I'm recognizing the fallacy of a polarity, of a polar world. And Buddhist philosophies are all about the middle way, the third way. Dark and light, good and bad, left and right. The system or me. The system's to blame. I am to blame, right? Nobody needs to be blamed. The answer is the middle. Maybe it's a mix of both. Maybe we are so focused on providing value to the others, we realize our cup is run old. But if you come awareness as you're highlighting, if we become more aware, if we cultivate awareness, maybe we'll get closer to knowing when we are running on really empty and we have to take care of ourselves. And so instead of giving up our dharma, our mission, our noble work of healing others, because we fall sick, we stop healing others and now say, okay, let me go do something else. If maybe we increase our longitivity under the curve, our time spending in the profession, right? So maybe doing less in the long term allows us to serve more. So I think there is an element of that.