Burnout isn't A Discipline Problem. It's An Infrastructure Problem.

Now, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to show you a two-minute understanding of what burnout actually is, okay? This is a performance curve.

It's a bit like the Jörg Dodson stress curve, very similar, but this is based around understanding burnout mechanisms.

Now, as we go up to here, we're looking at these key drivers here, which are are in three key stages, okay? First one is, at the bottom you'll see, this is the level of performance, and this is the pressure demands that you're underneath.

This bit here, you'll be bored.

This is where your performance is easy, but also the pressure for you to perform is easy too.

And in certain terms, what's the point? The next bit is comfort zone.

This is where you are good at your job, but underneath the hood you're bored.

And that's kind of where we're, high performance don't want to be in that position.

You're either growing or you're dying is quite a normal term to hear from people like Tony Robbins.

This for me is a massive game changer because this is called a stretch zone.

This bit here is where, is a bit where you actually find optimal performance.

Now, another fallacy for high achieving individuals is if you keep asking for peak performance is the reason why you're burnt out.

Peak performance basically means hitting the top of a mountain on a continual basis.

Those that know that I love to go on the mountains, you can't, you have to walk up the thing to come down the thing.

If you're climbing Everest, you stay at base camp, you summit, you go to the bottom.

It's the same with your performance.

Optimal is on this baseline here.

That's where we're trying to actually build.

That's where you find you can create more capacity in this stretch zone.

Most high achieving individuals generally think that if they stay and they want to talk about peak performance and be all in about everything, it's why they're struggling, overwhelmed, frustrated, physiology's all over the shop, they've got no energy, their sleep's poor, their libido's gone, their digestion's everywhere.

This is because you are living in absolutes.

And that is one of the key drivers of burnout, is that most high achieving individuals see every single task they have as an elite level goal acquisition framework, where that's the reality of why they struggle, is that's not the case.

High performance isn't that way.

Optimal performance is where we're trying to live 80% of the time.

Because if we have 80% of that capacity, it means we've got 20% more to push, okay? This bit here, is strain.