You're Solving the Wrong Problem: Why All Your Self Improvement Isn't Sticking

About this episode

Christina Slaback discusses how recognizing underlying patterns can transform one's approach to burnout and personal growth.

Send us Fan Mail How noticing the baseline pattern changed the way she thinks about burnout, productivity, and personal growth. Through stories from her own life—from putting a for-sale sign in the yard because she felt trapped, to catching herself thinking "must be nice" while scrolling social media—she explores the deeper operating systems that quietly shape our decisions, habits, and sense of possibility. Because sometimes the problem isn't your discipline. Sometimes you've been solving th...

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Host: Christina Slaback

Topics covered

• burnout
• productivity
• personal growth
• self improvement
• decision making

Keywords

• self improvement
• burnout
• productivity
• personal growth
• decision making

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