Burnout Is a Sign You're Doing the Wrong Work | Jonathan Fields

What if your body is already telling you the work you do every day is wrong for you?

Jonathan Fields, founder of Good Life Project and a former securities lawyer, sat down with Lewis to answer the question so many of us carry around: what should I do with my life? He shares how 100 hour weeks at a big law firm ended with an infection eating a hole through his intestine and a trip to emergency surgery.

From there you hear why burnout keeps climbing, why an existential crisis is really a crisis of meaning, and how collapsed boundaries between home and work make it worse. Lewis opens up about eczema that cleared within days once he stopped abandoning himself in his relationships and career.

Jonathan walks through the ideas in his book Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive, and Lewis learns he is a Maven who hates Essentialist work. You also get Jonathan’s blunt question for finding purpose: what should I just stop doing entirely?

You will finish this one ready to take the free Sparketype assessment and finally chase the work that makes you feel alive.

Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work that Makes You Come Alive

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Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance

Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love

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In this episode you will:

• Discover your Sparketype to uncover the unique imprint for work that makes you come alive
• Recognize the physical warning signs your body sends when your work or relationships fall out of alignment
• Break free from burnout by rebuilding the boundaries between work and home that have collapsed
• Question the hidden assumptions that keep you stuck in a rut using Katie Byron's The Work
• Eliminate the tasks that drain you so you can focus on what truly matters
• Close the gap between your felt and expressed potential without sabotaging yourself once you finally align

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