Are you drowning your autonomy in good intentions?
summary
Claims that learned helplessness and anxiety have risen since 2020, backed by interviews with leaders across Europe, the US, Australia and New Zealand and OECD and Swedish stats showing 60% reported mental health problem (vs 31% in 2011). Offers concrete tools: resilience framework (accept, address, embrace) drawn from Duckworth and athlete research, relationship quadrants from Robert J. Kelly, and actionable habits like three hard things each day plus the behavioral tactic to kill your advice monster and run small experiments.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:16How COVID changed our work culture
- 6:34Leaders’ concerns
- 9:26Demanding helplessness rise
- 12:35Learned helplessness harms innovation
- 15:22Limits of wellness initiatives
- 17:561950s husband analogy
- 19:59Reclaiming autonomy
- 20:19Train resilience muscles
- 25:00Reassess workplace relationships
- 28:13Star player framework
- 30:20Kill the advice monster
- 31:47Embrace agility
- 33:11Call to action and Q&A
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