Reinvent Yourself or Rust Out: Break the Monotony and Reignite Your Passion

The Big Leap

Gay Hendricks & Mike Koenigs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Freedom, Decisions, Mental Health, Business, Relationships, Genius, Education, Success, Beliefs

5 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Today, Mike and Gay are talking about a term that Gay invented to describe the slow leeching of joy from an activity or from life. 😳

It’s called “Rusting Out.”

We all know what burnout is, but Rusting Out is a different beast entirely. It happens when you resist the call of your genius and go through the same motions day after day after day.

That sounds like a slow, painful death to Mike.

Gay shares some real-life stories about how rust out affects even the biggest artists who struggle to get on stage and sing the same song for 30, 40, or even 50 years. Can you imagine doing the same thing day in and day out for that long?

But don't worry, this episode isn't just about the doom and gloom of rusting out. Mike and Gay also tell you how to avoid it and keep reinventing yourself.

They'll share their best tips for breaking out of your routine and doing something new every day, even if it's as simple as brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand or taking a new route to work.

So don't rust out, friends! Listen to this week’s episode and start busting out of your comfort zone. You never know where it might take you.

Key Takeaways

(02:04) What IS Rusting Out?
(05:18) The biggest soul killer
(09:44) The same damned thing over and over again
(22:14) How Bonnie Raitt and Tony Bennett reinvent themselves
(24:34) What is the brain looking for?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	It's a mistake to think that life is one damn thing after another.
0:06.0	It's actually the same damn thing over and over.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:09.0	And if you get to that point, you're rusting out.
0:12.0	I'd jump in my car, I'd pull out a coin, I'd go, okay, heads is north, tails is south,
0:17.0	and then I'd flip it again, east or west.
0:20.0	And that's what I do. That's what I'd drive.
0:22.5	Taking that big leap of doing something completely different that really felt uncomfortable,
0:28.1	positively sucked. But the unknown was better than the known, which was making me sad. I couldn't
0:34.4	even articulate it. Hi, this is Gay Hendricks. Welcome to this episode of the
0:38.7	Big Leap podcast. Mike and I are talking about something that I invented a word for it. The word is
0:45.4	rust out. It's different than burnout. And I think you're going to appreciate learning about it and how
0:52.2	you can avoid rushed out. Oh, one of the fun things that we talk about is how hard it is for some artist to get on stage and sing the same song for 30, 40, even 50 years.
1:07.0	And Gay has some real life stories about some big artists he knows personally who talk about how
1:15.3	and why they do it and how they create this mental connection to really get a lot of joy out
1:20.6	of something that could be absolutely repetitive and annoying for almost anyone else.
1:26.9	So this is a super fun episode.
1:29.7	I know you're going to love it and you're going to get a sneak peek
1:32.7	in some new work that Gaye's been up to in his brand new book
1:37.3	that's going to be released at the end of this year. All right, you said something in the last episode, Gay, that really grabbed me, and it's rusting out or rust out.
1:58.2	Describe what that is and why you invented that notion or that term?
2:05.1	Yes, well, pretty much everybody knows what burnout is.
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