Work Well, Not Long with Dr. Devan Kronisch, Part 2

<p><strong>SHOW SUMMARY</strong></p><p>Working well doesn’t always mean working long hours, and overworking should not be treated as a badge of honor. Unfortunately, in modern society, we often celebrate this behavior without realizing that this is also the leading cause of burnout and a host of other mental health problems in the workplace. </p><p>In this episode of the Peak Performance Selling Podcast, Dr. Devan Kronisch talks about the culture of overworking, and how managers can lead the charge in improving work-life balance. They also talk about the importance of failure and how to know whether you’re really performing well or just setting the bar too low. </p><p><strong>HIGHLIGHTS</strong></p><ul><li>Managers have a direct impact on their employees' mental health</li><li>Work ethics and Calvinism in North America</li><li>Managers need to start taking more days off</li><li>Why it's difficult to break the cycle of overworking </li><li>We learn best in a failure-tolerant environment</li></ul><p><strong>QUOTES</strong></p><p><strong>Dr. Devan on the relationship between Calvinism and overworking:</strong> "Basing on Calvinism, [the reason] why you are supposed to work yourself to death is to show that you will go to heaven. And you show that you're a good person by overworking. It has become such a badge of honor when we're seeing all these tweets; <i>'Hey, it's only Wednesday and I've already worked 80 hours this week!'</i> And we're supposed to celebrate this."</p><p><strong>Dr. Devan on managers leading the charge towards a better work-life balance:</strong> "I'm telling the managers that I'm coaching, <i>'I want to see stupid vacation pictures from you. I want you to go into your team slack and send a picture of you on your veranda with the cape with the dog or whatever so that it really shows that it's okay to really take [a day] off.’ </i>That it isn't a badge of honor to work long. We don't want people to work long, we want people to work well." </p><p><strong>Dr. Devan on why failing is an important ste