High performance without losing yourself - What a physician, researcher and consultant has learned about health, connection and sustainable excellence

There is an uncomfortable truth about health in high-performance environments: you already know all the advice this talk could give you. Sleep matters. Chronic stress harms. Connection protects. You belong to the most health-literate generation in history – and most of us still work as if we knew none of it. Why? Christian Becker has seen this paradox from four sides: as a physician in university medicine, as a researcher, as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and as an entrepreneur. In this personal, TED-style keynote, he follows the gap between knowing and doing to its surprising root – and shows why the answer is not more discipline, more information or more willpower. Drawing on current evidence on chronic stress, purpose, psychological safety and behaviour change, he makes th