Crazy Wisdom
How do you work with the stress of managing others?
- Breath, Body & Stress
- Management
- stress
- Creativity
About this episode
Today I sit down with Jason and interview him about the stress that comes from managing other people.
One of the most interesting things I learned is that managers should not try to be therapists. They should focus on coaching and if one of their employees is needs more therapeutic help they should be able to refer out to specialists.
Episode transcript
My name is Stuart Allsop and this is my podcast, Crazy Wisdom, where I interview creative people about how they work with and manage the stress that is inherent in creative work. What I've realized over the past 10 years of my research is that anybody who is creating something of value that is significantly different from what has come before is considered crazy. Most of us have a fear, an ingrained fear of going crazy. So what I'm saying is grab onto that fear, realize that it's there, and just go with it. Because the problems we're going to be facing over the next 20 years require crazy people in order to solve them.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom podcast. My guest here is Jason Evanish. Can you tell people more about what you do?
Sure. So I'm Jason Mix of a product product person and a founder. Currently I have a startup called Lighthouse which helps people be better managers. It turns out there's a lot of people that could use help with that. And so for the last probably four years, been doing tons of research, both from talking to managers directly as well as looking at the latest research and reading a lot of books, not just on leadership, but also on things like stress and understanding the human condition, I guess you could say, because all that comes into play because we don't manage robots, we manage other human beings that you have to understand and work well with.
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