Guy Winch

Thank you for having me.

So some of it we know, but a lot of it we don't realize that's what's actually going on.

For example, when you come home after a very challenging, difficult day at work because this irritating thing happened and that frustrating thing happened and that really stressful thing happened, it's going to be very natural for you to ruminate about it, to brood about it, to dwell about it, to replay certain things after work when you're home, to have fantasy arguments about

about turning someone off and all the mic drop moments you envision having, which you'll never have because you're never going to do it.

But that can take hours out of our evening.

That's one of the ways work will hijack our thoughts, for example.

There's research that shows that if one person is very stressed at work, their partner can develop symptoms of burnout.

One of the ways work will hijack our relationships.

Work also hijacks our leisure, our coping time.

our emotional intelligence, on and on and on.

So one of the warning signs to look for in yourself, you know, at work, for example, is do you approach your very difficult work days of I need to get through.

This is the day I need to get through.

You just put your head down on autopilot and you go from task to task to task.

You're not actually thinking in any deliberate or intentional way about, well, how do I manage this day?

How do I build in some actual useful breaks?

Right.

non-useful ones, i.e.

social media.

And so that, you know, that's one thing when you just feel like days that you have to get through, weeks, periods, entire periods you have to get through.

That's a warning sign.