How To Stop Getting Overwhelmed By Your Tech Job

Healthy Software Developer2023-12-20

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The video discusses the prevalence of overwhelm in the tech industry, attributing it to the relentless pace of progress, pressure to continuously learn, and the glorification of hustle culture. Signs of overwhelm include fatigue, depression, difficulty making decisions, feeling inadequate, and being constantly busy. The video offers practical tips to reduce overwhelm, such as prioritizing tasks, learning to say no, practicing mindfulness or prayer, exercising, and taking a break from social media.

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The tech industry is overwhelming due to the relentless pace of progress, pressure to continuously learn, and glorification of hustle culture.

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Tech projects have a relentless pace with continuous releases and no break between sprints.

There is internal and external pressure to constantly acquire new skills, leading to overwhelm.

Hustle culture, promoted by social media influencers, creates a belief that working excessively is necessary for success.

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Signs of being overwhelmed include constant fatigue, feeling disconnected, anxiety about job security, and the belief that more work needs to be done.

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Constant fatigue and lack of energy in tasks at work and home.

Feeling disconnected from personal life due to the expectation of always being available for work.

Anxiety about job security and the belief that there are always others waiting to take your job.

Managers mistakenly believe that giving more work makes everyone more productive.

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Signs of being overwhelmed also include having a hard time making decisions, feeling inadequate despite achievements, getting angry when asked for help, and making excuses for not engaging in social activities.

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Difficulty making decisions, even trivial ones, due to overwhelm.

Feeling inadequate at work despite external recognition of achievements.

Getting angry when asked for help, a sign of being overwhelmed and having too much to handle.

Making excuses for not engaging in social activities, which indicates feeling overwhelmed.

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To reduce overwhelm, it is important to prioritize tasks, learn to say no, practice mindfulness or prayer, exercise, get enough sleep, and take a break from social media.

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Prioritize tasks in both personal and work life to focus on high-priority and urgent responsibilities.

Learn to set boundaries and say no to additional work or commitments.

Practice mindfulness or prayer to give the mind rest and reduce stress.

Regular exercise and sufficient sleep can increase the body's ability to handle stress.

Taking a break from social media can help avoid comparison and reduce the pressure to achieve.

00:00 realistically on most jobs uh we have to

00:03 say no you know companies aren't going

00:04 to say well we better not give you know

00:07 Jamie too much work they're going to say

00:09 let's keep giving jimie work and he's a

00:11 professional he's an adult he'll tell us

00:13 when it's too much

00:25 work being overwhelmed in Tech is almost

00:28 a badge of honor these days and I

00:30 wouldn't blame you if you just thought

00:32 is there anything at all I can even do

00:34 about it every day the requirements

00:36 change there's some new technical hurdle

00:39 to overcome it's like building your

00:41 house on shifting sand I don't know

00:43 about you but that wipes me out and

00:46 people expect you to be available all

00:48 the time whether it's slack or online

00:51 meetings there's no time for you to

00:53 actually rest anymore and people expect

00:56 that no matter what you're doing in your

00:58 personal life you can instant inly jump

01:00 on the call or instantly respond to a

01:02 message and so you end up feeling kind

01:04 of disconnected from the people in your

01:06 personal life and social media is

01:09 bombarding you with all these new

01:11 technologies and you get this feeling in

01:13 the back of your mind this anxiety that

01:15 grows that's like if I slow down for

01:18 even a second there's hundreds of other

01:20 developers just waiting to take my job

01:23 worst of all managers have bought this

01:25 lie that giving you more work and making

01:27 you more efficient makes everybody more

01:30 productive when in reality it just

01:32 creates more chaos and burns everybody

01:35 out okay look if you're feeling

01:37 overwhelmed I don't want to add to that

01:40 by giving you more things to worry about

01:42 so let me share some things I've learned

01:44 in my career about when I've become

01:46 overwhelmed and I really hope the things

01:48 that I've learned since that have helped

01:50 me quite a bit will help you so you can

01:52 just have a really calm career and keep

01:55 growing first I'm going to share some

01:57 reasons why overwhelm is so prevalent in

02:00 the tech industry and then I'm going to

02:02 give you some signs you can look for to

02:04 help you know if you might be getting

02:06 overwhelmed with work you probably know

02:08 already but you may not and at the final

02:12 third of the video I'm going to actually

02:13 give you some really practical tips that

02:15 I hope will really help you if you are

02:18 dealing with overwhelm make some actual

02:21 changes in your life and in your career

02:23 and actually get back to Growing again

02:25 in your career so why is the tech

02:27 industry so overwhelming well the first

02:30 reason is just the Relentless pace of

02:32 progress if you're on a scrum project or

02:35 something like that every 2 weeks

02:37 there's a new release delivered but

02:40 there's no break in between the end of

02:42 that Sprint and the next one you just

02:43 roll right into it and keep marching

02:45 ahead and it's actually worse on kbon

02:48 projects because there is no rhythm to

02:50 know there's an end to anything there's

02:52 really just the end of the project and

02:53 there's an ongoing set of tickets also

02:56 many companies have an unlimited

02:58 vacation policy

03:00 and on the surface this sounds like a

03:02 really good thing oh I could take

03:03 vacation whenever I want but if you talk

03:05 to most people I think you may have even

03:07 experienced this yourself who work at

03:08 one of these companies people actually

03:11 end up taking less vacation because they

03:13 don't feel enough pressure to make sure

03:15 that they use it the second way that the

03:18 tech industry overwhelms us or may get

03:20 you to a point where you're feeling

03:22 overwhelmed is the pressure we have to

03:25 continuously learn when you're on the

03:28 job especially if you're developer just

03:31 part of getting your daily work done is

03:33 often searching all over the Internet or

03:35 using chat GPT or whatever kind of

03:37 research tools you use to find the

03:40 answers to your questions and even if

03:42 you're not a developer let's say you're

03:44 a product manager you're looking at you

03:46 know your competitors you're looking at

03:48 other products and Solutions in the

03:50 market that are similar to yours you're

03:51 looking for new opportunities you're

03:53 talking to your engineering team so

03:55 there's all these new things we're

03:57 acquiring just on the job but worse than

03:59 in that is if you go out on social media

04:02 or you go out on learning sites or you

04:04 just talk to your friends or your

04:06 colleagues there seems to be this

04:08 internal pressure that if you're not

04:10 learning new skills and you're not you

04:13 know growing that you're going to fail

04:14 in your career and while certainly you

04:17 can't just ride out a c current set of

04:19 skills probably for 20 years I think

04:23 often when we get to a point of

04:25 overwhelm in Tech it's just because we

04:27 have this unrealistic pressure to keep

04:29 learning and nobody can keep up with

04:31 that the third way that we often get

04:33 overwhelmed in the tech industry and I

04:35 think a big reason why it's such a

04:37 problem is we glorify hustle culture

04:41 look there's a lot of very well-known

04:43 social media influencers that like to

04:47 pump you up with a bunch of motivation

04:49 about how you know get out there and

04:50 keep working and you know work 80 hours

04:53 a week to achieve your dreams and I

04:55 think you know that sounds good on the

04:57 surface when some of those people want

04:59 to encourage you to basically burn your

05:02 entire life out to achieve some super

05:05 high goal but you know life is not a

05:08 Sprint it's a marathon and if you go

05:11 about your career that way where

05:13 basically you leave yourself no time for

05:15 rest you're going to get to a period of

05:17 burnout or overwhelm probably quicker

05:20 than you expect and I actually have a

05:22 career guide that you can download from

05:24 my website where I talk a little bit

05:26 about looking at your career over time

05:28 and sort of the stages that you go

05:30 through that's a much more I think

05:32 realistic way to think about achieving

05:34 you know outcomes in your career maybe

05:36 starting a company and things like that

05:38 that doesn't really require you to

05:41 basically sacrifice your health and

05:43 sacrifice your work life balance and

05:45 just burn yourself out so how do you

05:47 know that you're actually becoming

05:49 overwhelmed what happens well I think

05:52 one of the first things then and this is

05:54 probably one of the more obvious ones

05:56 but a little bit further I'm going to

05:57 get into some of the ones that are a

05:58 little harder to tell

06:00 is you constantly just feel kind of

06:02 fatigued like you don't have any energy

06:05 just doing anything your your tasks at

06:08 work things at home feel a lot more

06:10 exhausting than normal and also you can

06:13 just feel really depressed you know I've

06:16 heard the the explanation that

06:17 depression is when you're focused on the

06:19 past and anxiety is when you're focused

06:21 on the future I think that's pretty true

06:23 you know when when you're depressed

06:24 often you're looking back at something

06:27 in your life or in work that ultimately

06:29 you can't change it's really not very

06:30 helpful but you know the other day I

06:34 actually had something happen to me

06:35 where I've had three really difficult

06:38 things happen in my personal life this

06:39 year two of them were with family uh one

06:42 of them is with sort of extended family

06:45 and you know those three things on their

06:48 own I can handle a certain level of

06:51 stress on top of my job and you know

06:53 having a relationship with my wife and

06:55 my kids right there there's almost like

06:56 if you think of it like you have a

06:58 reservoir that holds water in your body

07:01 and that can hold an amount of stress or

07:03 amount of things that you can deal with

07:06 everyone has a threshold or a limit

07:08 where if you go above that you start to

07:11 feel overwhelmed and you get angry you

07:14 get depressed you know you start to feel

07:16 fatigued basically that this bullet that

07:17 I'm talking about this point I'm making

07:19 with you well the other day I was just

07:22 feeling kind of angry and I was feeling

07:24 unsettled and I couldn't figure out why

07:28 and you know I was talking about my wife

07:29 about it at night and I'm going through

07:31 all the things that I've been you know

07:32 dealing with and I realized something

07:35 had just happened recently that I won't

07:38 get into it but it wasn't a huge stress

07:40 but it was still a stress but that thing

07:44 on top of all the other things I was

07:45 dealing with this year was that was all

07:48 that was needed to kind of fill up my

07:50 reservoir so to speak of of stress and

07:52 of overwhelm and really caused me to

07:55 experience a lot of anxiety and feel

07:57 really angry and stressed out so if if

07:59 you're not sure why you're feeling

08:02 overwhelmed uh a sign can be that you

08:05 can't really figure out why and it might

08:07 not be a bad idea to look back over you

08:10 know the recent let's say year or couple

08:12 years you might have a few things going

08:14 on whether it's work or personal that

08:16 seem unrelated and they seem like

08:18 they're somewhat resolved in in my case

08:21 I felt like these were things that oh

08:22 I'm not really stressed out about them

08:24 anymore but just because they're not

08:26 currently stressing you out if they're

08:28 still somewhat stressful you know the

08:30 cumulative amount of all those things

08:32 together can really bring you to a place

08:34 of overwhelm the second sign that you're

08:37 probably overwhelmed or you may be is

08:40 you've heard the term brain fog or

08:42 basically having a hard time making

08:45 decisions uh I've shared with you

08:48 earlier on the channel that you know

08:50 I've had a lot of problems with insomnia

08:52 over the years I've had you know serious

08:54 burnout I shared that in a in a whole

08:56 episode with you a few weeks back but

08:59 but when I am not rested well enough or

09:02 when I'm overwhelmed I'll find that just

09:05 trivial decisions you know which task I

09:07 should work on first which direction to

09:09 go with the code you know what things I

09:12 should do or not do in my personal life

09:14 all of the sudden become way harder than

09:17 they really should be and my ability to

09:19 just kind of think clearly through a

09:21 sequence of processes where normally you

09:23 know I just kind of make the decisions

09:25 and things would move forward suddenly

09:27 I'll get to this place where I just

09:29 foggy I feel like I I'm confused I don't

09:32 really know where to go so if you're

09:35 starting to feel like that you know take

09:37 that seriously that's a real sign that

09:39 you might be experiencing overwhelm

09:41 another reason you might be feeling

09:43 overwhelmed or a sign of it rather is if

09:46 you basically feel

09:49 inadequate at at your job but it's kind

09:52 of contrary to your achievements meaning

09:55 you're actually getting a lot done and

09:57 you might even have co-workers

09:59 telling you hey we really love the job

10:02 you're working we really appreciate you

10:03 know this task you did or how hard you

10:06 worked on this one thing or how you

10:08 helped us you know solve this design

10:09 issue but you still are critical of

10:12 yourself and you still seem to tell

10:14 yourself man I'm just not getting enough

10:17 done and I'm not really doing really

10:18 great at this job that you know people

10:21 will attribute that to impostor syndrome

10:23 and sometimes it can be but sometimes

10:25 actually if you look into the science

10:26 behind it there's a that's a sign of

10:28 being over whelmed if you've got too

10:30 many things you're responsible for you

10:32 can suddenly become really self-critical

10:35 the fourth sign that you might be

10:37 overwhelmed is you get angry whenever

10:39 people ask for your help you've probably

10:42 seen this if you've been on a project

10:44 let's say you're a senior developer or a

10:46 junior developer and your Tech lead or

10:48 your lead you know technical lead on

10:50 your software project anytime you ask

10:53 them for help they kind of bark at you

10:56 or they basically make it your fault or

10:59 tell you well you didn't write the pr

11:01 correctly or you know I don't have time

11:03 you should know better they basically

11:05 give you these disclaimer statements

11:07 that somehow it's your problem and sure

11:09 there's processes we should follow and

11:11 we don't always do them perfectly and

11:13 sometimes you know asking for help is an

11:15 opportunity when someone can show us hey

11:17 I need you to go back and do something

11:19 different but the attitude that people

11:21 use when they tell you that if they kind

11:23 of again are short with you angry with

11:25 you bark at you that's a really good

11:27 sign that the person working with is

11:30 probably overwhelmed and they haven't

11:32 learned how to set boundaries with their

11:33 employer they're getting too much piled

11:35 on them and and they haven't figured out

11:37 a way to stop that so if you personally

11:41 start to not want to help people

11:43 especially if you see this too in your

11:45 personal life let's say your wife and

11:47 kids want to do something with you or

11:50 your friends want to do something with

11:51 you or there's a concert coming up or

11:53 some sporting event or you know whatever

11:55 it is that you like to do in your life

11:56 for fun you find reasons not to do it

12:00 you you almost get angry at the person

12:02 for asking you or at yourself for not

12:04 being able to do it that's a really good

12:06 sign that you're starting to experience

12:08 or probably are right in the middle of

12:09 some serious overwhelm in your life and

12:12 the last sign that you're probably

12:14 overwhelmed is the excuse that you're

12:16 too busy for social activities whether

12:19 it's somebody asking you to go out to

12:21 dinner with them or just go for a walk

12:24 or just trivial things that involve you

12:26 know building relationships with people

12:28 spending time together I'll often hear

12:31 people say I'm too busy I'm too busy I'm

12:33 too busy and hey if it's somebody who

12:35 you know let's say it's somebody on

12:37 linked out re linked out LinkedIn

12:39 reaching out to me for you know help

12:41 with something I literally am too busy

12:44 often to just build random new

12:45 relationships with people if they're

12:47 asking me to hop on a call which I get

12:49 all the time or you know promote their

12:51 product I'm literally too busy but the

12:53 people who are close to you in your life

12:55 and the people who you've already kind

12:56 of committed to have a relationship with

12:59 if you're always telling them I'm just

13:01 too busy I'm just too busy that's a big

13:04 sign that you're overwhelmed and you

13:06 need to do something about it so how can

13:08 you reduce overwhelm if you find

13:10 yourself in the middle of it well the

13:13 first thing that can really help is to

13:15 take a look at everything that you're

13:17 responsible for your tasks both in your

13:20 personal life and at work and prioritize

13:23 them this is the same thing that we ask

13:26 product managers to do for example with

13:28 you know work they give a scrum team or

13:30 tickets they give a you know conon team

13:33 but it it it surprises me that as

13:35 developers we often think just getting

13:37 handed tickets is enough prioritization

13:40 in our life and usually we've got things

13:41 we're responsible for at work other than

13:44 just user stories or tickets we've got

13:46 people that we need to be mentoring

13:48 people we need to help we may have some

13:50 administrative task like filing an

13:52 expense report or something we have to

13:53 do we may have some things at home that

13:56 we're responsible for a whole bunch of

13:58 I've got all kinds of stuff around here

13:59 projects that I'm responsible for and

14:02 some of those things are high priority

14:04 and some of them are not and some of

14:06 them seem urgent but they're not uh you

14:10 may have heard of the book SE The Seven

14:12 Habits of Highly Effective People by

14:14 Steven covy it's a really famous book it

14:17 I it's it was written a long time ago

14:18 now but that has a really great

14:20 framework for thinking through all the

14:22 tasks in your life and and in work and

14:25 trying to figure out you know how should

14:27 you prioritize them based on

14:29 a a few pretty simple factors but you

14:32 know one of the things I would often do

14:33 in my life and I've been honest with you

14:35 about this on the channel is when I

14:37 didn't want to prioritize my work I

14:39 would do drugs I would smoke weed

14:41 basically because I was just so

14:43 overwhelmed I didn't even feel like I

14:45 knew where to start to prioritize and so

14:48 rather than doing almost anything I

14:50 would do sort of like the bare minimum

14:52 in my personal life and I would throw so

14:53 much into work I've talked with you

14:55 about this before you know instead of

14:57 learning how to prioritize I would just

14:59 get high and then just kind of you know

15:01 Escape play a video game play some music

15:03 hang out with my wife or my kids and

15:06 just completely you know basically

15:08 ignore and and blow off stuff that I was

15:11 responsible for so you know if you are

15:13 feeling overwhelmed I just really want

15:15 to encourage you find a way that works

15:17 for you there's tons of different ways

15:19 to prioritize tasks but again the book I

15:21 just mentioned is really helpful and

15:23 don't you know Escape you know if you're

15:25 drinking if you're smoking if you're

15:26 doing anything else like that that's

15:28 that's really an escape that's allowing

15:30 you to put off what you need to do

15:32 you're going to continue to feel

15:33 overwhelmed until you start chipping

15:36 away at it and getting some of those

15:37 things out of the way the second way you

15:39 can reduce overwhelm is to learn to say

15:42 no this is a really hard one for me I've

15:46 shared this with you many times on the

15:48 channel but you know when you come from

15:50 a family let's say where you have really

15:52 high expectations on you as a kid

15:54 growing up it can be really hard to

15:56 learn you know as an adult in your

15:58 personal life and in your professional

15:59 life to really just say no to people

16:02 when it's a reasonable time to do it and

16:05 so you know if you're struggling with

16:07 saying no and people ask a lot of you

16:09 and you tend to just agree to stuff even

16:11 though you don't really probably have

16:13 the time or energy or you don't really

16:15 want to do it um there's a book now this

16:18 is probably only going to be helpful if

16:19 you believe in God but uh if you don't

16:23 don't read it or read a different book

16:25 but the one that really helped me was uh

16:27 there's a book called when people are

16:29 big and God is small and this book

16:32 really helped me kind of put in

16:34 perspective how much I was moving

16:36 forward in my life basing a lot of my

16:38 own personal value of myself and and how

16:42 successful I thought I was and sort of

16:44 what I thought I should be doing as a

16:45 person on you know what other people

16:48 expected of me when realistically on

16:50 most jobs uh we have to say no you know

16:53 companies aren't going to say well we

16:55 better not give you know jimie too much

16:57 work they're going to say

16:59 let's keep giving Jamie work and he's a

17:01 professional he's an adult he'll tell us

17:03 when it's too much work so you know

17:07 basically if anything you can do to try

17:09 to help your ability to set boundaries

17:12 with people and I'm going to make

17:13 specific videos in the next year about

17:15 setting boundaries will really help you

17:18 not feel overwhelmed the third thing you

17:20 can do to help just reduce or eliminate

17:23 your feeling of just being overwhelmed

17:25 in your life or on your projects is to

17:28 PR practice mindfulness or prayer you

17:32 know in today's modern age often we get

17:35 up in the morning we get on our cell

17:37 phone right away we get on slack we get

17:40 into a meeting we work all day we're

17:42 focused on the computer then we come

17:44 home maybe we play a video game we watch

17:47 TV we watch a YouTube video like this

17:50 you know we're constantly taking an

17:52 information and looking at screens and

17:54 accomplishing things and it gives us no

17:57 time at all to let let our thoughts

17:59 actually sort of be processed and settle

18:02 and you know when I had a lot of

18:03 problems with sleep my insomnia which I

18:05 still do struggle with on and off for

18:07 sure you know one of the things that

18:09 helped me was I I came up with a period

18:11 of worry time now this isn't something I

18:14 came up with personally I'll I'll do a

18:16 whole episode on sleep this year by the

18:18 way and share some of the things I've

18:19 learned about it but you know I if you

18:22 if you don't give yourself some time to

18:24 really process everything that's going

18:26 on your day where you're not taking on

18:28 new information it's just going to

18:30 continue to overwhelm you so I'd really

18:31 encourage you there's some there's some

18:33 mindfulness apps out there that'll help

18:35 you with you know if you if you want to

18:37 do meditation also just you know if you

18:39 don't want to look at it as sort of a

18:41 new age type of thing and just look at

18:43 it as an ability for you to be able to

18:45 give your mind rest and not be thinking

18:48 about anything uh you know and I'll warn

18:50 you if you haven't done this in a number

18:52 of years you got to be patient with

18:54 yourself it's extremely hard you might

18:56 be able to only sit with your own

18:58 thoughts for like 2 minutes seriously

19:01 when you first start doing this you know

19:03 me being uh of of religious Faith you

19:06 know I I follow Christ um prayer is is

19:09 what I almost always go to when I'm

19:12 stressed out and I need to let my

19:13 thoughts relax um I bring my stresses to

19:17 the Lord and and I ask for help with him

19:20 and sometimes I just sit there in you

19:22 know the piece of that he's in control

19:24 and try to just let go of like you know

19:27 I I can't get this all done I'm feeling

19:29 overwhelmed but I'm not the one in

19:31 control and that often really helps me

19:33 out the fourth thing you can do to

19:35 really help yourself recover from

19:37 overwhelm or or deal with it better is

19:40 to exercise and get more sleep you know

19:43 when you're not sleeping well it's

19:45 incredibly hard to exercise I've been

19:47 struggling for the last 6 years I used

19:50 to be significantly uh lighter than I am

19:54 right now um and I used to work out you

19:57 know 7 days a week and lately ever since

19:59 I had my kind of nervous breakdown

20:02 chronic insomnia this you know I talked

20:03 about this in my burnout video but this

20:05 was about 6 years ago you know I I go

20:07 through periods where I start riding my

20:09 bike a lot where I start lifting weights

20:11 again and then I have stuff happen in my

20:13 life sometimes I I just can't cope with

20:16 the stress well enough and I start to

20:18 sleep poorly and then it's really hard

20:20 to exercise and it's kind of this

20:21 vicious cycle that you get into and it's

20:24 been improving but for me it's kind of

20:26 like I improve a little and I fall back

20:27 a little and I improve a little and I

20:29 fall back a little and it's just a

20:31 process you know and I'm getting older

20:32 too and it's a lot harder to stay

20:34 healthy the older you get but if you're

20:37 feeling overwhelmed like there's just

20:38 you can't take on all the stresses of

20:40 the world one way to increase that

20:43 Reservoir I talked about that sort of

20:45 like if you think of it again as

20:46 something that holds your ability to

20:48 sort of like buffer or handle stress

20:50 before it overwhelms you is exercise you

20:54 know I like to ride road bikes there's a

20:57 little Trail called the the valway here

20:58 in Austin very close to my house uh I

21:01 also don't mind just even going for a

21:03 walk is is excellent ability to get some

21:05 exercise you don't have to power walk it

21:07 just any kind of walking but really

21:10 anything you could do lifting weights is

21:11 great as you get older just really all

21:13 the time but you know what I found is

21:15 that that Reservoir that ability to take

21:17 on stress you probably experienced this

21:19 too increases if you're exercising

21:21 regularly meaning you can have stressful

21:24 events happen in your life or happen at

21:26 work and they won't kind of blow you out

21:29 into anxiety or depression or despair as

21:32 quickly because you have sort of a

21:34 buffer of you know your body feels

21:37 really good from the workout you have

21:39 you know a lot of uh things going

21:41 through your body hormones and things

21:43 that are keeping sort of your stress at

21:44 a more balanced level so that when you

21:47 do hit those stress periods you don't

21:49 just instantly flip out and the last

21:51 thing I'd really recommend you consider

21:54 if you want to reduce overwhelm in your

21:56 life and this is something something

21:58 that is super hard for most people but

22:01 I've done it several times over the last

22:03 6 years and it's been really

22:05 lifechanging is to take what's called a

22:07 social media fast it's basically a break

22:11 explicit break from all social media for

22:14 a period of time now I should clarify

22:17 here I don't personally look at

22:19 listening to podcasts or watching

22:21 YouTube videos necessarily is social

22:24 media I more think of you know Instagram

22:26 Tik Tok Twitter

22:28 you know WhatsApp all that kind of stuff

22:30 is Facebook right as as social media but

22:34 the the the main thing here is you know

22:37 the the more you're on social media or

22:39 really you're just consuming content

22:40 you're seeing all these other people in

22:42 life doing things and if you've got

22:45 goals in your life whether it's just

22:47 your work you know for another company

22:49 or you're trying to start a company like

22:51 I am you know when I go on LinkedIn

22:54 let's say and I scroll two or three

22:57 times you know I start thinking should I

22:58 have sold three companies by the time I

23:00 was 23 you know or whatever you know

23:03 achievement signaling people are sharing

23:05 and and then all of the sudden rather

23:07 than me being excited about my life and

23:09 wanting to move forward and just proud

23:11 of my own achievements I'm getting

23:12 wrapped up in everybody else's and then

23:15 the other thing is you know learning

23:17 you've you've heard me talk about this I

23:18 think a couple years ago but learning

23:20 can be a form of procrastination I

23:22 learned this the hard way which is you

23:23 know you can you can be basically on

23:26 YouTube watching videos about some

23:28 programming thing or about you know

23:30 starting a business or health but if

23:32 you're not actually starting a business

23:34 and taking actions in it or you're not

23:36 actually using the program programming

23:38 language or you're not actually starting

23:40 to exercise you're not really doing

23:44 anything different in your life but

23:45 you're getting kind of that same

23:46 endorphin hit in your body you know that

23:49 you that you or dopamine sorry hit that

23:51 you think that you know you're basically

23:54 creating a reward for yourself that

23:55 you're accomplishing something and

23:56 you're not you're deceiving yourself so

23:59 you know I would recommend you can do it

24:01 for a week you can do it for a month my

24:03 wife did it for almost a whole year uh

24:06 but you know just uninstall the social

24:08 media apps off of your phone take a

24:10 freaking break you know just focus on

24:13 the stuff right in front of you and then

24:16 come back to it if you're feeling less

24:18 overwhelmed and you know I hope that

24:20 just if you try at least one or

24:22 hopefully a lot of these five tips I

24:24 gave you today if you're starting to

24:25 feel really overwhelmed and some of the

24:28 signs that I've given you are helping

24:29 you see that you are overwhelmed uh you

24:31 can pull yourself out of it and just

24:34 enjoy your career this year so are you

24:36 struggling with being overwhelmed what

24:38 are you going through what are you doing

24:40 to get help leave me some comments until

24:43 next time thanks

💫 FAQs about This YouTube Video

1. What are the reasons for feeling overwhelmed in the tech industry?

The tech industry can be overwhelming due to the relentless pace of progress, the pressure to continuously learn, and the glorification of hustle culture. The video explores these reasons in detail.

2. What are the signs of being overwhelmed at work?

Signs of being overwhelmed at work include constant fatigue, feeling disconnected from personal life, and the belief that giving more work makes everyone more productive. This can lead to burnout and reduce productivity.

3. How can one reduce overwhelm in the tech industry?

To reduce overwhelm in the tech industry, it's important to prioritize tasks, learn to say no, practice mindfulness or prayer, exercise and get enough sleep, and take a break from social media. These strategies can help manage stress and prevent burnout.

4. What are the negative effects of feeling overwhelmed in the tech industry?

Feeling overwhelmed in the tech industry can lead to burnout, reduced productivity, and can have negative effects on mental and physical health. It's important to address overwhelm to maintain a healthy work-life balance and well-being.

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