The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett XX
[0] Did you know that the DariVosio now has its own channel exclusively on Samsung TV Plus?
[1] And I'm excited to say that we've partnered with Samsung TV to bring this to life, and the channel is available in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
[2] Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming service available to all owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy mobiles and tablets.
[3] And along with the Dyeravisio channel, you'll find hundreds of more channels with entertainment for everyone all for free on Samsung TV plus.
[4] So if you own a Samsung TV, tune in now and watch the Dyer of a Cio channel.
[5] right now.
[6] One of the big things in our sort of society at the moment is the topic of mental health.
[7] Yeah.
[8] And founders and entrepreneurs go through very sort of high pressure, I guess, high pressure journeys in order to try and achieve this objective.
[9] How do you protect your own mental health?
[10] And what have you learnt over the last couple of years about keeping your sort of mental well -being in check?
[11] If you go too mad in terms of hours, it's going to be.
[12] going to, it's going to catch up with you eventually.
[13] So you, you will get yourself burned out if you're not careful.
[14] I'm a lot older than you.
[15] So I'm probably going to get burned out easier.
[16] You can probably go harder than what I can for longer.
[17] But you do need to take into account that when you see it coming, you've got to try and take the foot off the accelerator a little bit.
[18] But, you know, ultimately, somebody asked me a question, a place over that, you know, there is no way around it.
[19] You can have to put the graft in.
[20] You have to put the hours in.
[21] It's going to have to be for a sustained period of time to make these things work.
[22] but try and keep an eye on yourself because if you start I don't know I probably started going out too much you know like in the evening you're trying to make up for um because you think it's like a reward mechanism I suppose you think I've put all these hours in what am I getting back out of it I'm not just going to sit at I'm so I probably burnt a candle at both ends went out a bit too much and midweek weekends and you just think yeah you can do it you're indestructible you keep going but eventually it will catch up with you if you're not careful did it catch up with you yeah yeah and what were the what were the symptoms of that i'm asking for myself here because because do you know what you said that's very accurate i at one stage thought i was indestructible right when i was like 18 19 i thought i can just i don't need sleep i don't need to speak to a human yeah yeah i can just hammer it when and you know i'd look at other people and think like ha ha ha yeah yeah and then people would say to me all the time you're going to burn yourself out and i never believe i never believed either until i started to um get super tired right so So I just thought, oh my God, you know, like there was, when I, I tell what the signal was when I stopped going to work, there was a couple of times where I just, I'd get up in the morning, get on the sofa and didn't go in.
[23] And that was not me. So, yeah, and then like, stop going to the gym and stuff like that.
[24] And just like, going to the gym, we should look forward to it because it gives you a bit of a lift, a bit of a buzz.
[25] And then I go to the gym and I dread going because I know they're going to be even more tired when I come out of it.
[26] And it wouldn't do that.
[27] And so I think I went to saw a doctor.
[28] doctor said chronic fatigue syndrome and and then the obviously the problem with that is it's not clearly defined as being an actual thing there's no clearly defined sort of medication basically said like you need to change your you know like sleep patterns and stuff like that and sort yourself out take some time off I said I can't take too much time off of stuff to do so it was just a case of and this was probably 18 months two years ago so I think I'm sort of back to normal now but it does take a long time and some of those days we're like yeah you just you're just fucked in terms of you know your ability to to get stuff done so luckily the team's a lot bigger now so we've put people in i gave up the CEO role and so all those things have contributed to to put me back on an even keel um chronic fatigue fatigue syndrome yeah what did he just what did he say the doctor say about that sounds like something that i i need to do my very best to avoid yes indeed uh I think that some people, there is no, I don't think it's even a clear.
[29] I think it's one of these one really quite a woolly ones.
[30] People say it's not even a thing.
[31] But for me, it was like very clear that I was not the same as what I was previously.
[32] And so, yeah, I think it probably was burning the candle at both ends.
[33] And, you know, like I'd go, I'd do a day's work, go out in the evening, get up in the morning, go to the gym, do a hard session, go to work, do it again.
[34] And like, that was a bit too extreme because of this sort of feeling like I could do anything.
[35] you think, and eventually it does catch up with you.
[36] But I think it's just, you've just try and, in the early days of a startup, it's a sprint for sure.
[37] You could die the following day, basically, if the company, if you don't do certain work, the company could fail.
[38] So you are scared of failure in terms of this baby you've created.
[39] It needs nurturing.
[40] You know, you've got to try and nurture that baby as best as you can.
[41] And if you don't feed that baby that second, it could die.
[42] So you keep, you keep feeding.
[43] And then eventually the baby becomes a a toddler and it's more self -sufficient and I think that at that stage you can take the foot of the accelerator and that you need to try and get to that point and notice that point and then do take your foot of the accelerator because if you try and keep going full pace full pace it turns from a sprint to a marathon so we're in that sort of marathon stage now we sort of can see the future of being I've got this you know it's not it's not another year's time it's number three or four years time and if you're at full pace of the number three or four is you're really going to struggle Did you know that the Dariovacio now has its own channel exclusively on Samsung TV Plus?
[44] And I'm excited to say that we've partnered with Samsung TV to bring this to life and the channel is available in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.
[45] Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming service available to all owners of Samsung Smart TVs and Galaxy mobiles and tablets.
[46] And along with the Dyeravisio channel, you'll find hundreds of more channels with entertainment for everyone all for free on Samsung TV Plus.
[47] So if you own a Samsung TV, tune in now and watch the Dyer of a CEO channel right now.