Short talk discussing simple strategies to prevent or reduce burnout. Speaker reports survey-style findings: people prioritize taking time off (weekends, holidays), strenuous exercise, and psychological techniques—particularly mindfulness and meditation.
What can we do if we're starting to feel that we're on the trajectory towards burnout? There are a number of de stressing strategies and they're pretty bleeding obvious, but when we asked people, they basically said time off, so having weekends off, having holidays. After that came exercise, and they put a real emphasis on strenuous exercise. And of all the psychological techniques then, in fact, mindfulness and meditation came up as top of the pops compared to all the others.
