In our careers, it’s not uncommon to sacrifice health and happiness for success and profits.

19 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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A first-person reflection (YouTube video excerpt) by Bill Gallagher about chronic high-stress work culture. The speaker regrets operating in constant ‘Olympic mode’, and says that understanding the brain and nervous system, energy use, and reprioritization could allow equally effective performance with better health and wellbeing.

I loved that part of the work and, you know, all of the accolades that came with that, but the stress itself, I wish I'd known back then that if I just knew how to dial it back, if I understood my brain and nervous system and understood how. How the mind works, what takes energy and how to prioritize things differently, I could have been just as effective. But you think. You think at that stage in your life, you need to be on high stress, Olympic mode all the time.