Guy Winch

And yes, it requires effort, but it's absolutely the thing to do.

absolutely give yourself and you know what when people do it and and sometimes they'll do it and i felt so guilty because i vegged out i'm like you know what give yourself retrospective retroactive permission i do that myself like you know like i know i should blah blah but i'm like nope i'm just gonna binge this and i know i'm gonna wake up and feel regret for it but then i'll give myself retroactive permission you know what it's good you did that you need you needed a cheat evening

You needed an evening where you just kind of gave in to the other impulses.

Now you've gotten that out of your system.

Tonight it's going to be different.

So yes, give yourself the cheat.

Give yourself the break once in a while.

We can't be like on ourselves all the time, but we have to be a lot of the time or certainly much more than we tend to be.

How bad it gets is that people get burnt out, and then they're really not very, very functional or productive at all.

I've seen people get divorced because they brought so many work conflicts home and weren't aware the extent to which it's eroding their relationships.

We've seen founders of big companies

admit to the press that they were overworking to such an extent that they became malnourished and developed scurvy, something a Flintstones vitamin could have prevented.

But that's the amount of self-neglect we can sometimes assume when we are overworking.

And of course, this is a risk when you're passionate.

about your job.

When you love what you do, it can take over your life as well.

And this is why it's such a common thing.

It's common for people who don't like what they do or whose jobs are very demanding.

It's common for people like me.

I'm self-employed.