The Energy Equation: What Burnout Actually Is
Burnout isn't about hating your job—you can burn out of work you love. It's about energy: when the cost of doing something chronically exceeds what you get back.
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Burnout isn't about hating your job—you can burn out of work you love. It's about energy: when the cost of doing something chronically exceeds what you get back.
Read this articleBurnout doesn't happen overnight. It accumulates—each hit knocks you down, you find your legs, return to baseline. Then the next hit. Down and down and down.
Read this articleBurnout often happens because we're holding onto something with a death grip. Identity, purpose, meaning—the very things that make letting go so hard.
Read this articleOur experience is real, especially over long periods. Burnout sends signals—cognitive, emotional, physical. Are we listening? Are we doing anything with that information?
Read this articleBurnout is real, but so is recovery. Here's how to respond instead of react, make choices that accumulate toward something better, and find your way through.
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