WARNING: This solocast is a bit of a rant. A call to action. To do more. To do better. To have a bigger impact. There’s a lot going on. There’s more work to do than ever before. There are more problems to solve. We need to work BETTER. We also need to avoid the traps of Achiever: achiever disease and overwork, goal sickness and sacrificing our values at the altar of results.

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• Signs and symptoms of Achiever Disease
• As an Amplifier we can amplify message, motivation, and results
• How perspective is the key to empathy, and how empathy expands perspective

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Steven Kotler’s new science fiction book: Last Tango in Cyberspace

Alarming article on the End of Empathy

A short history of the word empathy:

The English word “empathy” came into being only about a century ago as a translation for the German psychological term Einfühlung, literally meaning “feeling-in.” English-speaking psychologists suggested a handful of other translations for the word, including “animation,” “play,” “aesthetic sympathy,” and “semblance.” But in 1908 two psychologists from Cornell and the University of Cambridge suggested “empathy” for Einfühlung, drawing on the Greek “em” for “in” and “pathos” for “feeling,” and it stuck.

Handouts:

The Achiever Disease and Goal Sickness Achiever-disease-PDF.pdf">Self Assessment

Achiever-Amplifier-perspective-practice-principles-META-PDF.pdf">Achiever and Amplifier Principles, Perspective, and Practice

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E104 - Ultra-wellness for hard-charging executives - strategies with Alessandra Edwards

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About your podcast host, Zoë Routh:

Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.

Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact,  Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted stuff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.

Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.

www.zoerouth.com