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How to Outperform 99% of People at Work [Without Burning Out] · Dr. Rosen Reveals- Real Medicine. Clear answers

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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to outperform 99% of people at work, you can probably find a hundred videos telling you to wake up earlier, organize your calendar better, or squeeze more into every hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of that advice is useful, but there's a point where doing more stops helping.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can stay later, take on more, answer everything immediately, and keep pushing because you're good at handling a lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: The problem usually shows up later.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Heather Rosen Turley.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a board certified family physician, and I want to show you how to keep performing at a high level without slowly wearing yourself down in the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, protect your best hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the earliest ways to waste your ability at work is to give your best mental hours to things that barely require it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You come in fresh, open your emails, answer messages, deal with somebody else's problem, jump into a meeting, and by the time you finally sit down to do the thing that actually requires your best thinking, half your attention is already gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the first thing I would have you figure out is when you are naturally sharpest.
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  SPEAKER_00: For some people, that's early in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: For somebody else, it might be later in the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once you know that, protect at least part of that time for work that actually needs your judgment, concentration, or decision making.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not saying ignore your emails until 3 o'clock or tell your boss you're unavailable because Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rosenturley said so.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying stop treating every task like it deserves the same version of your brain.
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  SPEAKER_00: A performance coach might look at your calendar and ask where you can become more efficient.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as a doctor, I'm also looking at the person who has to execute that calendar every day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because once you start paying attention to when you work the best, you usually notice something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are parts of the day where your brain just is not doing the same job anymore, and that is where people often make the wrong move.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stop borrowing energy from later.
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  SPEAKER_00: When your energy starts dropping, the obvious answer is usually just to push through it.
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  SPEAKER_00: You grab another coffee, skip lunch because you're busy, or stay later because you did not get enough done earlier.
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  SPEAKER_00: Occasionally that's just life.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the problem is when that becomes your normal way of functioning.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you are regularly cutting sleep, eating badly, or using more caffeine just to feel focused enough to get through the day, you may still be getting things done, but you're making it harder for tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the part that high performers tend to underestimate because the consequences do not always show up immediately.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can get away with sleeping five hours, working through lunch, and telling yourself you can just recover this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because you're still functioning, it's easy to assume that everything is fine until the same workload that used to feel manageable starts feeling much harder.
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  SPEAKER_00: Productivity conversation might stop at use caffeine strategically.
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  SPEAKER_00: My medical question is why do you need that much caffeine to feel like yourself?
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a very different question.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you keep needing more help to get yourself up than more help to shut yourself down, I want to pay attention to that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes people start leaning hard on alcohol, medications, or other substances just to change how they feel at the end of the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've spent many years in addiction medicine and I've seen how easily something that starts as, uh, this just helps me get through the week, become its own problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I do not only care whether your system is getting results, I care about what those results are costing you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the cost is not coming from your workload alone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Please do not try to outwork a health problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: If somebody tells me, I used to be sharp all day and now by two o'clock I'm just dragging.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do not automatically assume they need a better planner.
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  SPEAKER_00: I want to know why they're dragging at 2 o'clock.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is where the difference between performance advice and medical care becomes important.
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  SPEAKER_00: A coach may help you get more from the energy you have, but I want to know whether you should have more energy in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Depending on the person and what else is going on, I may want to look at sleep, thyroid function, medications, nutrition, vitamin levels, or any other changes that could be affecting them and their performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Vitamin D deficiency is something I see quite a bit, and depending on the person, I might want to look at B vitamins too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thyroid problems can affect energy, mood, concentration, and sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: And for women in their 40s and 50s, hormonal changes can also start showing up in ways that affect work before somebody even realizes what's happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you're not sleeping as well, your concentration is off, or you're suddenly more anxious or irritable in situations that you used to handle without much trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, that does not automatically mean that hormones are the answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means that if you're working twice as hard to get the same result you used to get, I want to know why.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because pushing harder can hide a problem for a while, but it cannot fix it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is where a lot of ambitious people get themselves into trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: They interpret every dip in performance as a discipline problem.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes that's really the issue and you need to put the phone down and do the work, but sometimes your body is giving you less to work with than it used to, and no productivity system is going to completely make up for that.
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  SPEAKER_00: If your energy, focus, mood, sleep, or ability to handle stress has changed, and you want someone to look at the whole picture, you can use the link below to get in touch with my clinic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I look at both the mental and physical side of what's going on because I do not want to stop at, oh, you're just stressed, if there may be more to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, assuming your health is in a good place, there is another way high performers can waste a huge amount of effort without realizing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Busy is not the same as effective.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some people are incredibly busy from the second they start work until the second they leave.
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  SPEAKER_00: They answer everything quickly, sit through every meeting, respond to every request, and always seem to have 10 things going on at once.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then we still end the week wondering why the important work you barely moved.
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  SPEAKER_00: Activity can feel a lot like accomplishment.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I would start paying attention to which parts of your job require your brain at its best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which decisions matter, which conversations matter, which problems really need your experience.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is where I would protect your energy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if your whole day becomes reacting to everybody else, you can work extremely hard without doing much of the work that makes you valuable.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's another benefit to getting better at this.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you stop wasting your best energy on low value work, you are less likely to need your evenings just to catch up.
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  SPEAKER_00: That matters because one of the earliest signs that work is starting to take on too much from you is when the workday technically ends, but your brain does not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your workday needs an end.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lot of ambitious people are physically home and mentally still at work.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're making dinner while replying a meeting, checking emails after they sit down, or lying in bed thinking about what they need to do tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: So even though they left the office hours ago, their brain never really got the message that work was over.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can perform like that for a while, but you are not really recovering.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your brain needs periods where it's not solving problems, anticipating what might happen next, or trying to figure out what somebody meant.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you are somebody who tends to replay conversations at work, I have another video specifically on how to stop overthinking every conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if a five-minute conversation is taking up the next five hours of your night, that is an enormous amount of mental energy going somewhere that is not helping you perform better.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is also where burnout tends to snake up on people.
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  SPEAKER_00: It usually does not begin with somebody suddenly being unable to work.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are signs before that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't wait for burnout to become obvious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you start dreading Monday more than you used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your patients get shorter, or you notice that you need most of the weekend just to feel normal again.
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  SPEAKER_00: You may still be performing well enough that nobody else notices, and that is exactly why people ignore it.
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  SPEAKER_00: They think, I'm still getting everything done, so I must be fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as a doctor, I'm not only interested in whether you are still producing, I want to know what it is taking to keep producing, whether you're sleeping and recovering well, and whether you still feel like yourself outside of work or your whole life has slowly reorganized itself around keeping up.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is when I want you to look at the bigger picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: The answer may be better boundaries or fewer unnecessary demands, but it could also involve anxiety, depression, or something physical that is making your energy, focus, or stress tolerance worse.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes it's a combination.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, my job is not to assume which one it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: My job is to help you sort out what is actually happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: Making high performance repeatable.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to outperform 99% of the people at work, I would not just focus on becoming the person who can tolerate the most punishment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would focus on becoming the person who can keep showing up with a clear head and enough energy to do well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Protect the hours when your brain works best and stop wasting those hours on work that barely requires you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pay attention when you start needing more caffeine, less sleep, or other ways of forcing yourself through the day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if something about your energy, mood, focus, or ability to handle stress has changed, do not automatically assume that you've lost your edge.
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  SPEAKER_00: There may be a habit that needs to change, a mental health issue that needs attention, or something physical underneath that is still making the whole thing harder than it used to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you figure that out early, you have a much better chance of staying good at what you do without eventually paying for it with your health.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want someone to look at both the mental and physical side of what's happening, you can use the link below to get in touch with my clinic.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if one of the reasons work is wearing you down is that you cannot stop replaying every interaction after you leave, watch my video on how to stop overthinking every conversation.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you there.