Praising slowness - Carl Honore Brainstorm examples of what Honoré calls “bad slow” and “good slow.” Create an entertaining way to share your examples with others, and work with classmates to launch a “Slow Living” exhibit or fair in your community—perhaps in conjunction with the Global Day of Slow Living (exact dates vary year to year, but it usually falls during spring). Honoré says, “Some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full-throttle treadmill.” Inspired by these pleas and growing out of his own experiences as a parent, three years after his TED talk Honoré authored "Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children From The Culture Of Hyper-Parenting." Learn more about the genesis of this book and why Honoré worries about kids today at Slow Food International
Wanting Meaningful Work Is Not a First World Problem - Umair Haque “I read your latest essay.” Arms crossed, eyes ablaze. “I don’t think you get it. At. All. I’d met Sophie, one of my mentees, for what I’d thought was going to be a pleasant chat over good coffee on a perfect autumn day. “Meaning,” she muttered, staring darkly into her cup. “Meaning,” she said again. Many of us, I’d bet, feel like this: in a hardscrabble age of austerity, the search for meaning is an unaffordable self-indulgence, the torrid affair that painfully breaks up the quietly satisfying marriage, an idly romantic daydream, the jackpot whose price is misfortune; that if one is to survive another lost decade, searching for meaning is something like mining the fools’ gold of life. But she wasn’t done with me yet. Man, let me tell you. Most of us, I’d bet, are something like naive Maslovians — we subscribe to a theory of human motivation, and human values, that line up altogether too neatly with Maslow’s famous pyramid, without considering the deeper nuances of his insights.
3 Tips for Conquering Job Burnout | Michael S. Broder, Ph.D. Can you relate to the following scenario? You once approached your work in a dedicated, passionate and enthusiastic way. You were eager and excited about your responsibilities. It's important to realize that not just anyone experiences burnout. Here are three tips to get your job burnout under control, to reconnect with your passion and restore your positive attitude about work: Stop devaluing yourself -- Burnout can occur when you're not feeling valued by others but even more often occurs when as a result you devalue yourself. Take back control -- Almost every job has a variety of characteristics that are not your choice. Consider a change -- If you're truly powerless to change circumstances at work, a career or job change may be in order to bring you back to your zone of passion. The longer you wait to address your job burnout, the more likely it is that your apathy will spread to other areas of your life, including your relationships and even hobbies. For more by Michael S.