Today, I want to talk about how to combat cynicism.

As we learned last week, cynicism is one of the main components of burnout that can absolutely choke out your power.

It can choke out your air, and it can make you want to distance yourself from others.

It can even make you want to distance yourself from the things that you used to be passionate about, like working with patients or working with your coworkers, or even cynicism that shows up in your home because, as you know and I know, burnout affects all the areas of your life.

Now I don't know if you know this or not but the average person will spend over 90,000 hours at work and the reason why I want to share this with you is because there is a form of air the people and places that you put yourself around that is unavoidable.

Air at work is not something you can always get away from, and some of you are thinking right now, yeah, Aaron, exactly.

That's my problem.

She is so cynical or that person over there…They just make my life miserable and I can't get away from it and I can't quit my job.

So what do I do?

And when cynicism begins to seep into you pretty soon, all you can see is the negative aspects of those other people, and it adds to your exhaustion, and it makes you want to distance yourself even more.