About this episode
Amantha Imber shares her experiences of burnout and recovery in a personal conversation with Lael Stone.
**This week I'm sharing a crossover episode from the Humans, being. podcast with the wonderful Lael Stone. It's one of the more personal chats I've done in a while. We talk about my burnout year, the tiny experiments that brought me back, AI and where I think it's headed, and the uncomfortable question of whether being ordinary might actually be enough. I hope you love it as much as I loved having it. You can find the original episode on Humans Being here .** Amantha calls her AI 'Sunny'. She talks to it on the drive to the gym, like she's chatting to a friend. And it has quietly changed how she works, how she writes, and how she gets the thinking out of her own head. Dr. Amantha Imber is one of the sharpest, most generous humans I know. An organisational psychologist, the founder of Inventium, host of How I Work, the first Australian to win a Thinkers50 Innovation Award, the author of four bestselling books, and her brand new one, The Energy Game, lands in July. In this episode, we discuss Amantha's burnout year and the tiny experiments that crawled her back, the ones she calls boosts, rest, and protect. Why "fake rest" (Netflix while you scroll) won't fill the bucket…
People in this episode
Host: Amantha Imber
Guest: Lael Stone
Topics covered
- burnout
- AI
- personal growth
- ordinary life
- mental health
- experiments
Keywords
- burnout
- AI
- personal experiments
- mental health
- ordinary life
- childhood praise imprint
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Humans, being.
Books & works: The Energy Game
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