Redefining Rest - Slowing Down to Speed Up! | Bec Heinrich | TEDxFargo

Bec Heinrich studies, develops, coaches and consults to leaders of all ages. In this talk she shares about how the disease of busyness is corroding our lives and why rest is critical for inspiring and sustainable leadership. Bec explores how rest transformed her life and leadership, and from her research, shares about the impact of rest on people's performance.
Bec has spent the past 18 years focused on developing leaders of all ages. Bec launched her first business at the age of 16, and her second, a social enterprise which consulted to the education sector in Australia to design and facilitate leadership and character development programs, at the age of 21. She spent 10 years scaling this organization. Bec moved to the United States and is a manager at Deloitte’s Washington DC Greenhouse, an innovation and collaboration space where she helps executive-level commercial, government and non-profit clients focus on strategic conversations. Bec has degrees in politics and law from Macquarie University in Sydney, has studied social entrepreneurship and innovation at Stanford University and recently completed a master’s in leadership at Georgetown University. Her thesis was on the impact of rest on the performance of leaders, inspired after she took a year-long sabbatical to learn how to slow down in order to speed up.
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[@kimtruong4319]

People online always talk about how to study/ work for more than 12 hours a day but only you telling me how to rest Thank you for this

[@MFJared]

As a recovered Goal Addict, I can really get down with this. Life isn't a race, it's an experience. What happens when you finish? I'll give you a hint. It's a box and it's dark.

[@cnash5647]

To be honest, I think a mild addiction is okay, most people I knew don't really have big ambition, hence the competition is not competitive at all. Having a proper mindset is the key to it, goal addicts tend to be more 'disciplined' compared to other addicts (internet addicts, drug addicts, and much more) in my point of view, so maybe advertising 'Goal Addiction' in a controlled and supervised way might lead to more birth of excellent leaders. And areas with goal addictions, the government could consider pace down life.

[@NoamMota]

I might tattoo it . "Life isn't a race its an exprerience"

[@AnimeFanClub786]

Think outside the box, cause inside your dead

[@LondonDreamSoul]

great point about life being an experience 👏🏾👍🏾

[@dreamervert]

What if when you finish... it’s actually better than anything down here? What if there was a life after this? Revelation 21:1

[@racsob73]

In your honor I dedicate 15 minutes of each day to simply petting my dog. Thank you for the excellent message and sharing your story.

[@lowercaseguy3578]

As a developer it's hard haha

[@yaktd5704]

:wq! from the pc is hard!

[@gabby-zb9hw]

Yes, yes and yes. I can relate to the speaker. I used to overwork and feel miserable while preparing for my A-levels. It affected my life so much that I almost cut off my closest friends and family during that time. Despite being isolated, I was so overwhelmed with an education system that I decided to take a gap year. At the beginning of it I had to "detoxify" myself from the high school's experiences for about 4 months or so. Likewise, I bursted out in tears one day and this was a crucial moment. Fortunately, on that day I converted to the faith and everything changed. From that point on I started to live again and seek for opportunities to thrive, rn it's even exciting for me to think about an upcoming school year. Who would predict it back then? Not me, definitely hahhaha. Now I am still on my gap year and I'm feeling better than ever. Although for the time being I'm preparing for my CAE exam, my stress and time managment improved much in comparision with my preparation for A-levels. I highly recommend you to take breaks and spend your spare time doing things that profoundly absord such as- sports, playing the instruments, painting or reading and not to overuse social media. To all the readers- have a great day and wish me luck my CAE exam! :))

[@creamrising]

Slowing down heals inner trauma. Beautiful.

[@mg79277]

Thank you bec. I needed to hear someone I could relate to. My energies are depleted on so many levels but not for the same reasons. In contrast to you being driven and addicted to your own successes. I am depleted by failures. Going to a job I feel no passion for everyday to pay rent and by food. I have never taken a vacation to go away for a week to rest. Ever. My vacations are filled with to do’s that I never have any energy for. My mind is overwhelmed with financial worry always. My creative thoughts and dreams are set aside The people I care about set aside My needs set aside. I am completely exhausted When covid hit I lost my job for 3 beautiful months. I had just ended a very toxic relationship with a man I was with for 20 years and the world had stopped. No cars in the streets. No noise. No job to have to go too. I too took a chair and small table and set it down under a tree in our communal back yard. I got up at 4:00 am every morning and went outside to sit down with a cup of coffee, feed the squirrels and the birds talk to passerby’s, read, write. It was the most wonderful time in my life. Now I’m back to being so busy making myself sick. Thank you I needed this talk

[@ramsen7347]

A very powerful talk indeed! It helps to fortify one's resolve to slow down inwardly .

[@vadimemelin2941]

True leader, such a high-spiriting speech, yet no specific explanation at how does one rest.

[@cheriecanning300]

So true Bec - Loved it. Such a relevant reminder during COVID-19. Thank you x

[@devonlesoine4008]

one of my favorites! thank you for this!

[@sugkizzy8]

Beautiful talk!!! Very nice!! Thank you so much for underlying the importance of this! Rest is crucial for everything we are rly human doings instead of human beings and it costs us a lot that we take time to realize and by the time we do is already too late for us. Thank you beautiful speech

[@Zoelis17]

How beautiful! What an amazing story!

[@AnimeMindfulness]

this needs to be recommended more

[@cathreensalas822]

I'm listening to this before making my script for a talk about disconnecting and resting. I am super inspired and learning a lot. Thank you so much

[@AnimeFanClub786]

Share such things

[@shathiso]

This was a beautiful talk Bec.

[@tehv0001]

Loved this talk! Thanks Bec for sharing.

[@sethzeiter6663]

I'mma be pedantic for a second: 忙 (mang2, busy), which is the word that is being referenced, is indeed made up of 心 (xin1, heart) and 亡 (wang2, death). However, it's probably not for the reasons you're thinking. There are often (not always, and frustratingly, not usually that helpful) two components to a character in Chinese: the semantic component (i.e., the part that suggests meaning) and the phonetic component (i.e., the part that suggests pronunciation). For sociocultural/sociolinguistic reasons that I don't fully comprehend, concepts like "busy" are often associated with 心 in Chinese, possibly because it's fairly synonymous to our meaning of "mind"(as in "change your mind"). Hence its appearance in the word 忙...ish. I dunno. I just learn it, not so much question it! 亡 is one of those words that just happens to crop up a lot as a phonetic component for many different characters. It's in the word for mango (芒果), it's in the word for hope (望), and more. Unfortunately, it also just so happens to mean "death."

[@DanielShorstein]

this sounds like a great start to a book

[@Nowhere9]

I do nothing important, but I can't let myself relax and think, I make myself busy with anything that doesn't make me think about my life and the thing I am afraid of, I just be anxious in the inside, it's painful feeling stay weeks and months with me.

[@Nowhere9]

@Nikita Potapov what?

[@minisportvideo7889]

Amazing talk!!! ❤️

[@florentlabeille694]

Beautiful speech and very inspiring

[@intuitivelyinsync6500]

Thank you so much for this 🔥🔥💯

[@bingratnapala6350]

Thanks for this Bec!

[@pablodasal9662]

this really inspired me

[@anniewood7614]

Wonderful ideas - has me re-thinking my routines and thinking about how to build in time to rest! Thanks, Bec!

[@yuhesdance1380]

this is amazing video. it really helps me right now

[@adamalpha7881]

wow just !!

[@aqibhussain6031]

very nice Sharing ur experience others can Also think about this its a nice tak welldone

[@user-yi1sm2lt6v]

thank u

[@joseseserda]

All I heard was... SABBATH is good! GOD is amazing! I love everything!

[@surajahire744]

🧡

[@kekemikekemi]

「忙」＝心(heart)＋亡(death/loosing/killing)

[@heehead5600]

The news generates revenue from attention. This is why the news always reports on the most "obscure/shocking/attention grabbing" events.

[@marinekw1307]

god that's wow

[@anyazayamusic]

All you need to rest is more money and more time 😉 it is very simple! People don’t rest because they feel they can’t afford to rest.

[@GlynTaylor]

Her problem was that she lost sight of purpose. You don't need rest to find purpose. You need exploration. It was in her stepping back that she was able to understand that what she was doing before was not aligned with purpose. If you are working like crazy within a delusion of what really matter, you will burn out and breakdown. As long as you properly connect with truth, rest can only take up a very short amount of time

[@dmtdreamz7706]

Here is the cheat code. If i can literally just sit around basking in my own happiness and love and self-satisfaction then that short-circuits all of life. That's the genius of this method. That's its power. You think this is a bug. This is not a bug. This is a feature. This is exactly what you want. You want to short circuit that because you see then it frees you up.

[@Mohandas.Gandhi]

@6:31 I literally never said that.

[@yungnizzle4792]

Quick i need a quote

[@Fuzz_Face]

“A human year is months in dog years, so when dogs are humans, then it takes a long time for you to get a quote”

[@zes3813]

not brx paralyx etc. wrong idts

[@hengxiao702]

Oh. I thought it were a talk about the Rest language🤣

[@GlynTaylor]

Opposite. The more purpose you have the less rest you need, the more you experience, the more you achieve. Stack reason

[@montycashmontycash]

You're not working hard enough in this video!

[@memm7846]

nothing new. the chinese have talked about this for as long as i can remember (and obviously much longer than that). The "doing nothing" concept where you're actually propelled forward. Just a repackaging of the same stuff.