Workaholism: Anxiety, Addiction, and Finding Balance in a Busy World | Being Well Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- In our productivity-obsessed, always-on world it’s easy for busyness to become a badge of honor. But sometimes that effort-ing transforms from the reasonable pursuit of our goals into workaholism: a compulsive, even addictive drive to work. In today’s episode @RickHanson and I explore what workaholism is really, the psychological functions it serves, and how it relates to other addictive behaviors. You’ll learn both how to approach changing behaviors like workaholism in general and specific interventions that can help.
Key Topics:
0:00 Introduction
2:10 Differentiating workaholism from working hard
9:40 Preempting criticism, and your internal audience
17:15 Competence, approval seeking, and motives
24:05 Addiction without social stigma
28:00 Population groups more prone to workaholism
33:15 The stages of change
37:10 Moving to the wider view, craving and regret
40:35 Embodying your future self, and social support
42:50 Identity, and creating a coherent narrative
45:50 Underlying feelings, mindfulness, and making choices
49:15 Distinguishing being and becoming
52:30 Tracking your time, and scheduling time off
55:00 Giving others influence over your behavior
56:20 Rick’s personal experience navigating a healthy work ethic
1:01:50 Recap
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Who Am I: I'm Forrest, the co-author of Resilient (amzn.to/3iXLerD) and host of the Being Well Podcast (apple.co/38ufGG0). I'm making videos focused on simplifying psychology, mental health, and personal growth.
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This conversation was so meaningful to me. The way you both engage with each other, the balance of humor and knowledge, the compassion and political awareness… gosh. What a gift!
There's a quote from the mindfulness book "30 Days to Reduce Anxiety" (Harper Daniels) that says "Rushing is another form of going nowhere." That hit me. It's so true...we are conditioned to work in a way that leads to burn out and fatigue. It's important to find meaning in work, but if the goal is to simply rush ahead and make money...then life comes to an end fairly quickly. Going slower and being more intentional is a way to get ahead quicker.
Dr Rick, I'm sharing your pause 😮 I definately have skin in this one, too 😂 Great episode, Forrest.
As a former workaholic, (working to avoid, cope, develop), I see the difference in my focus; everyday is still full of productivity and goals, (that's my personality), but these achievements span all the important life sectors aka work:life balance.
This was very interesting, workaholic is something not many people talks about.
Hi Forrest. Firstly, thank you so much for all the work that you do. It’s very much appreciated! I wondered if I might put forward a topic suggestion for the future… Given that outlook is probably ultimately everything, I wondered if you might consider doing a podcast on Rationality and the pursuance of a healthy perspective - and specific ways and means of shifting ingrained thought patterns and opposing negative conditioning.
This is really interesting.
Can you do something on ostracism and self imposed exile - social anxiety but more exclusion focussed
Love you friend from India 🇮🇳
This is an interesting topic. I appreciate that you put out a wide variety of well researched and progressive topics for us. Regarding this topic, I finally got enrolled into a subject that I wanted at almost 40 yrs old and my childhood self was always wanting to be smart to cope with being so sensitive. And I would love to be work obsessed if I were self discovering simultaneously, but I’m doing the opposite at the moment to retrain my mind towards self compassion. ❤
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some give up, others persist. giving up doesn't accomplish anything
it is so easy to fall into the trap
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