Excellent education reduces health risks!

Have you ever imagined or pretended something? I mean have you ever done it that intensive that you really felt it and it was going to happen? Your imagination opens doors.

That can happen for the positive as well as negative outcome.

I had a discussion about workload and how to prepare for it.

Someone who is going to study Business management said: “Anybody has to care about himself to stay healthy. And at a certain point people have to raise their hands and quit.”

I agree with his first statement. I request his second one. Why at all start people with that in mind? That means either they “succeed” in business pretending that they are still healthy or they “succeed” staying healthy and fail in business.

Do you like one of these options?

I prefer to go for both at the same time as I like to succeed instead of pretending that I had succeeded.

It is quite shocking that such people whose decisions as managers of huge companies or political leaders influence the lives of millions or billions of people think that it is impossible to have both health and success in business and LIFE.

That shows a limited imagination. Can a limited imagination lead to inventions?

The good news is the person I was talking to said in the end: “I don’t know how I can change my way of working to get excellent results in a healthy way.”

That is a good start to learn as it is honest and includes the possibility there is a way. More and more often it comes to my mind that it is important to teach such skills at the universities especially when people head for a career in management.

You wonder why I think so.

There are several reasons:

First, these people are ambitious. They want to learn to strive and develop excellence in their field. This includes the risk to burn them out.

Second, these people aim for position with high responsibilities that affects the lives of billions of people. So we should give them the best education to be sure that they decide consciously counting in everything important. That is the best prevention from negative outcomes for societies. Who should care and pay for all the ill and unemployed people?

Third, under the pressure of workload failures occur easily. Rarely this leads to great inventions. Instead it can cause difficulties. It does so more often then we would like to.

Forth, people who get the best education should be able to give back to society as long as possible. Instead many of them burn out after a short time and just function. Several burn out while still at university. So a lot of knowledge and skills get lost this way.

Fifth, excellence is only possible when you succeed in all areas of your life. So far there are assessments to prove skills and knowledge as well as how people react under high pressure. This shows only how people can cope with pressure over a short time like a few hours or days. Nearly anybody in average condition is able to do that.

Does it really serve the purpose to find out whether these persons can deal with pressure and stress over years or even months? Does it really proof they can perform at their best in the long run?

For other professions like air force pilots there is although health’s check. That would be a good idea as well as the health conditions play a huge role for any performance. When you are ill you call that disease. So you are going to do things without ease.

Hey, have you ever thought about the meaning of DISEASE? It means you have to put more effort in something to get a good result while you are at disease. It takes more of your energy than doing things at ease. Over time you develop more diseases. Some are widely tolerated and avoided to be addressed as such like wearing glasses, difficulties to let go, difficulties to sleep well……

Yes, it is true there are supplements or pharmacy for that. They all just help to feel more comfortable with the status quo. Do they really improve your perception or performance? Is it really your performance when you act? I think it is just part of what you can do. Are you really satisfied to do less than YOU CAN? It means that you reach less than you can.

There are choices to change something for your life now. You decide. You can ask for such topics when joining an elite university as you or your company pay high fees for it.

I wonder why elite universities miss to teach such topics. Are they really fulfilling their responsibilities to deliver the best education?

I wonder why companies avoid teaching such things to their employee’s right from the beginning. Lots of costs are raised when people get a disease. It affects their performance and that of their team members. The higher the position the more people are affected by it as it causes a different thinking and different actions.

When people have to leave for treatments for a while that increases the costs far more. The company has to give that work to others and risk that they fail or burn out. They have to pay while the person is ill. And after a certain time they have to find a new person, recruiting is expensive: the higher the position the more expensive it is. And it takes time. The new person needs time to fit in. And there is still a risk that the same happens to that person as well.

There are possibilities to lower that risks and improve the results at the same time. The best is these could be learned and easily implemented. The earlier you start learning it the better and easier for you to implement it. It is like a language. The one you learned as child was the easiest one. Later on you complicated it because you wanted to understand all and reason it out before you used it.

It is easier to use it in a new job right from the beginning instead of changing your way to work in a current job.

Both are possible.

The elite Universities should take responsibility to teach that part as well as the other content like business management or computer science.

Just go for the best, you can go for excellent performance combined with excellent health and fun.

Shine from inside out: Be YOU round the clock.

Larissa Glueck,

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