Distracted Driving & Boreout

April is Distracted Driving Month, Dangerous Dave talks about how most people say the don't drive distracted. Plus, "Boreout", do you have it? It is like burnout but because you are underwelmed.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous Day. April
is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and you'll be thrilled to
know that most people said they never drive distracted haha.
In a survey, seventy four percent of Americans claim they
never touched their phone while driving in the past year.
Other people do do it. Sixty five percent of people
say they see other drivers using their phones behind the

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wheel at least a couple times a week. I see
it daily daily. Eighty nine percent of people said they
witnessed speeding in the last couple of weeks, and sixty
percent see people speeding through school zone. Sixty seven percent
witness red light running at least once a month. I
saw it this morning on my way to work at
four o'clock this morning. As I stopped there, I said, Wow,

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that light couldn't have got any redder. Sixty three percent
of Americans think that the average driver has gotten worse
in the recent years, and seventy eight percent think drivers
aren't a state of recklessness, and sixty five percent said
they've never driven distracted in the past year. National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration says distracted driving was a cause of
three thousand deaths last year and four one hundred thousand

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injuries nationwide justin twenty twenty four alone. So if seventy
four percent of Americans claim they never touched their phone
while driving, April is distracted driving month. But today is
also tell a lie Day, So there's a lot of
people I guess celebrating today. Deeper in the two, Well,
do you feel like your job isn't all that hard
but you're still burnt out? You might have this instead.

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It's called borout. It's a new trending word after Forbes
did a story a lot of symptoms about burnout, but
it's different. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by work, you're underwhelmed
and bored by It doesn't mean that you're lazier, don't
do much. Borout happens because you're in the same role
for too long, don't see opportunities for growth, or don't
interact with coworkers very much. If you've never heard of borout,

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you're not alone. It's not a new term. Mental health
experts have been using it for a while, but authors
of the book Diagnose Borout coined it in two thousand
and seven. It's more common now than it used to
be because we're more mentally checked out at work now
and is a part of an issue of great detachment,
really great detachment do you have that we feel less
connected to our jobs, don't find much purpose in them

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as we used to. So it's not burnout, it's borout.
It's for those that are kind of disenchanted with their
actual job and don't feel like they're getting anywhere spinning
their wheels, so to speak. But hopefully you're just in
a rut, because a grave is a rut where the
ends have been knocked out. Tune in again for another
episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Daved here.