Take the Cape Off: Burnout, Boundaries & AI with Damon Lester | Driven by Intelligence

You know what? Most of us, we suffer in silence and think we're just going to brush it off our shoulders and we're going to keep it going.

I think admitting it is step one.

And admitting it to a loved one or a pastor or a friend, I would urge everyone, when you hear someone say that, I don't think the operative word is that, man, it's going to be all right.

I think we need to start to dig further.

And what is it that's your birthright? You have to start to dig what the it is.

And, you know, I remember telling folks, I knew I wasn't right.

Like you, my dad passed and it was a sudden thing, but I kept going because everyone needs you, right? And if you stop and miss 12 million, you know, balls dropping at the same time.

And so, you know, we always want to make sure that we keep up with that because then once you get behind, it's hard to catch back up.

But I think we have to admit and say it's okay to not be okay.

You really have to stop and say that.

But there is a fear of being ridiculed.

There's a fear of not taking serious about it.

There's a fear of, oh, just take the day off.

Those are, I would say, kind of not even band-aids.

It's like a paperclip, right? It's not a band-aid on the cover or anything.

You're just putting a place marker in something that is inevitable going to change the page, right? And so I think...

admitting it and knowing that you're not okay or not feeling right or that you are feeling burnt out.

You have to have that discussion on digging what the it is.

And some of it, that pressure is both from professionally and personally because Nowadays, everybody's professional and personal life kind of intertwines with each other, right? There's no separation.

And so there's no separation because we have access to these.

These phones are the go-between, the in-between of everything that we do and life goes in existence.

And so, you know, those are the things we have to figure out.

How can we turn off? And I was telling someone real quick yesterday, they were telling me about a relative past, and it was a parent.

And he went right back to work.

And he was a GM at a dealership.