{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world","title":"The 100% Myth: Why Giving Everything Is Costing You Everything","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1401,"description":"Why “Give 100%” Is Corrosive: Sustainable Performance, Burnout, and Reserve Capacity\n\nHost Leslie Poston examines the phrase “give 100%” in American work culture, tracing it to Protestant work-ethic theology and arguing it became a management tool that moralizes maximum output despite lacking empirical support. The episode contrasts this norm with research on sustainable performance, citing shorter-workweek trials. Poston explains how “100%” ignores unequal baselines via allostatic load, highlights commute and remote-work effects, and details autistic burnout and masking costs. Drawing on Christina Maslach’s burnout research and WHO recognition, the script argues burnout is organizational, not personal, and advocates structural changes and operating below maximum (e.g., “give 60%”).\n00:00 Why Give 100%\n01:06 Protestant Work Ethic\n03:18 No Evidence Just Inherited\n04:20 The Math of Depletion\n04:52 Four Day Week Proof\n06:59 Reserve Beats Extraction\n07:49 Unequal Starting Baselines\n08:08 Allostatic Load Explained\n10:25 Remote Work Stress Relief\n11:42 Neurodivergent Hidden Costs\n13:14 Masking and Autistic Burnout\n15:39 Self Care Myth\n16:15 Maslach Burnout Research\n19:32 Why the Norm Persists\n20:04 Sustainable Performance Science\n21:38 A Question for Yourself\n22:26 Evidence Based Changes\n22:59 Give 60% Closing\n23:11 Sign Off","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tfTZRMl-qAeSUK8tWME-JVPi2fZ9cCSCIKffGPEXHOY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzUxMjc3LzE3MTEx/Njg4NjYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}