Sustainability & Creator Wellbeing
Burnout prevention, parasocial boundary management, separating identity from metrics, systems for a long career.
- Lectures
- 7
- Total runtime
- 5h 50m
- Attendance minimum
- 2h 55m
- Prerequisites
- None
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- 20. The Good Life: Happiness The evidence on what actually makes people happy — and why we are so bad at predicting it 48 min Attended
- Happiness and/or the Good Life? Happiness is not the same thing as a good life: three disciplines on what a career should be for 85 min Attended
- "Understanding Burnout," Prof. Christina Maslach (U.C. Berkeley) Burnout as a diagnosable syndrome, not a character flaw: exhaustion, cynicism, inefficacy 72 min Attended
- Managing Stress: Protecting Your Health What chronic stress does to the body, and which recovery practices actually hold up 55 min Attended
- Practicing Safe Parasocializing | Sarah Schreck | TEDxPointParkUniversity The creator's occupational hazard: one-sided intimacy and where the boundary goes 18 min Attended
- Building a Life - Howard H. Stevenson (2013) Designing a career you can still be doing in twenty years 57 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator Hustle culture lied to you (here's a better way) A full-time creator recounts his own burnout and rebuilds his working conditions around it, putting Lecture 3's finding (burnout is a workload-and-control mismatch, so you change the conditions rather than the person) and Lecture 6's long-career framing into practice 15 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Matt D'Avella — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.