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It's difficult to know when to set boundaries around your health at work because the decline is so gradual. Allowing stress to build up, losing sleep, and sitting all day without exercising all add up.

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Mortality is very different when you're 20 to when you're 50.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.

Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy.