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"When violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success with a viral YouTube video, she finds herself incapacitated and burned out from her attempts to be perfect in other people's eyes. If Anna ever wants to move forward, she has to learn to listen to her own heart, but that's not easy when her greatest fear has always been disappointing others. Her solution is to create a low-stress environment, with no expectations to fulfill, where she can...
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"History's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to transform modern jobs. Drawing from research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of thinkers from Galileo and Isaac Newton to Jane Austen and Georgia O'Keefe, Newport lays out the key principles of "slow...
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"Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, 'urgent' (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find peace, she heads to the seaside resort she loved as a...
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To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don't know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas. Working 24/7 has always been her solution to surviving the festive season--until burnout leads to a catastrophic blunder. Suddenly, Imogen is handed a holiday gift she definitely doesn't want: enforced time off work to recuperate....
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Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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269 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Workplace well-being expert Jennifer Moss helps leaders and individuals prevent burnout and create healthier, happier, and more productive workplaces.
We tend to think of burnout as a problem we can solve with self-care: more yoga, better breathing techniques, and more resilience. But evidence is mounting that applying personal, Band-Aid solutions to an epic and rapidly evolving workplace phenomenon isn't enoughin fact, it's not even close. If we're...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2022.
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First Edition.
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312 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Lizzy "Overachiever" Chung, Esq. has her life mapped out neatly: * Become a lawyer. Check. * Join a prestigious law firm. Check. * Make partner. In progress. If all goes to plan, she will check off that last box in a couple years, make her parents proud, and live a successful, fulfilled life in L.A. What was not in her plans was passing out from a panic attack during a pivotal moment in her career. A few deep breaths and a four hour drive later,...
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Simon Element
Pub. Date
2022.
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First Simon Element hardcover edition.
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294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Functional medicine innovator and founder of nationally renowned practice Parsley Health, Dr. Robin Berzin's definitive work on how to fight the physical ailments at the root of the international epidemic of burnout, anxiety, and stress" --
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Penguin Life
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2024.
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276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Do you struggle to relax, even while on vacation? Have shallow breaths, trouble sleeping, and aches that won't go away? Feel irritable constantly, like the slightest inconvenience might set you off? If the answer to any or all of these questions is yes, your nervous system might be dysregulated. This shows how to bring it back into balance--and experience a calmer, more resilient way to be. Breaking down the fascinating workings of our nervous system...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Solutions to workplace burnout often involve victim-blaming: Stressed? Try therapy-or a new job. But burnout is a sign of defective workplaces, not workers. Drawing on decades of research, Christina Maslach and Michael Leiter show managers how to recognize burnout and fix problems cost-effectively, improving employees' productivity and health"--
11) Limitless
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2011
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Widescreen ver.
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall Street power broker who wants everything Eddie has, and more....
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The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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First edition.
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xxii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Is dread the first thing you feel when you wake up in the morning? Are you working in the evenings and on weekends to "catch up"? Have you already beat burnout once, only to find it creeping back? If you answered yes to any of these, you're in need of a cure for burnout. In The Cure for Burnout, burnout management coach and TikTok influencer Emily Ballesteros combines scientific and cultural research, her expertise in organizational psychology, and...
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Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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First edition.
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xx, 251 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Creating meaningful, sustainable change isn't just about moving from point A to point B, it's about taking small actions to tap into what's best in you: your creativity, wisdom, and strength. Khidekel helps you unlock your greatest potential with microsteps: tiny, science-backed actions you can start taking right away to build habits that significantly improve your life. -- Adapted from jacket
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[2021]
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First edition.
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256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Do you ever feel like: You're teetering right on the edge of burnout? You want to make a higher contribution, but lack the energy? You're running faster but not moving closer to your goals? Everything is so much harder than it used to be? As high achievers, we've been conditioned to believe that the path to success is paved with relentless work. That if we want to overachieve, we have to overexert, overthink, and overdo. That if we aren't perpetually...