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How to Overcome Burnout with Jr.

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When you spend 15 years working as a basketball performance coach alongside some of the greatest NBA players of all time, including Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and Kobe Bryant, you gather incredible stories about the dedication required to be among the best in your business. One of Alan Stein Jr.’s favorite stories involved Curry, who, even as a young and unknown player, would not leave the court until he swished five free throws in a row.

“Curry held himself to an unparalleled standard of excellence,” said Stein, himself a basketball player at Elon University. “The first step of raising your game is to raise your standard. Curry did not accept the baskets that hit the rim in those moments when nobody was watching him. He took complete responsibility for his own development to guide him in becoming one of the greatest shooters of all time.”

The author of Raise Your Game and Sustain Your Game, Alan successfully transferred his performance coaching skills from basketball to helping leaders at such organizations as American Express, Pepsi, and Starbucks apply his strategies to their daily routine. Alan has also become an expert on two of the most commonly felt downsides of the achievement ethic – namely stress and burnout.

In Alan’s view, stress comes from a “desire for things to be different than they are in the present moment.” In a professional work environment, the feeling of burnout happens when prolonged stress creates “misalignment between the hours you spend at work and the meaning of that work.”

If our work loses its meaning, enjoyment, or sense of impact, argues Alan, doing it no longer energizes us; instead, it saps our energy. Thus: burnout. The way to arrest burnout’s downward spiral is to “deconstruct” its origins to discover where and when the love faded. Then ask if the love can come back.

In the podcast, he taps into his experiences working with elite athletes and business executives to suggest how any of us can work to regain control of our mood, mindset, and perspective.


You will learn:

  •  5:00   How to raise your standards.
  • 10:30  How to understand where stress comes from.
  • 16:00  How to combat burnout at work.
  • 23:00  Why “basic” and “easy” are not synonyms.
  • 34:00  How to clearly define employee roles.
  • 36:00  Is what you measure in alignment with your desired culture?



You will learn:

  •  6:00   How easy it is to cut corners in practice and why you’ll suffer as a result.
  •  8:00   How to emphasize the power or “we” on your team.
  • 11:00  How living and working in Japan in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster taught Lane that caring was the universal language of respected leaders.
  • 15:00  The level of employee interaction required to achieve success.
  • 18:30  The difference between being accountable and responsible.
  • 27:00  How to identify a meaningful friend or mentor.

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