Psychologist and coach Ewa Jarczewska-Gerc has studied them all so as to help us defeat them. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Ewa is helping the young, and the not so young, to discover their strengths, tap into their personal wells of motivation and prevent stress and burnout, and is allergic to inane, off-the-shelf "solutions" peddled by the many self-styled self-improvement gurus of today. She has recently completed “Quo Vadis” - a project which used e-tests to help people identify their skills, capacities and possible career paths. Stress… Burnout… Procrastination…