Here's a hot take I heard from a CEO coach last year. She thought burnout was the bodies response of saying that you are literally going to die if you keep working
Burnout here years ago. Accompanying depression and anxiety disorders.
It's not about what you actually do or don't do, it's more about how you manage your life and what your view of everything is. I haven't really been the hardest working or the most productive.
I feel like people who say that, it's like a way to compensate for that failure by projecting an image of super hard working people who have reached exhaustion or great competitive athletes who have reached failure. And I think that no, you can get burnout with a bad management of your life, your way of thinking, and with some really bad habits, and above all "stress that has not been successfully managed" [0].
I have recovered (or so I think) but I can't make as much mental effort as before, I feel that I reach my "limit" earlier, and that if I continue I can end up the same as before. But I can work on long term projects being constant. But I feel that I can't push myself like before.
Also we need to remember that the body response is the correct response in all such situations. We need to trust our bodies more, they encompass all the data from millions of years of evolution.
geswit2x|2 years ago
It's not about what you actually do or don't do, it's more about how you manage your life and what your view of everything is. I haven't really been the hardest working or the most productive.
I feel like people who say that, it's like a way to compensate for that failure by projecting an image of super hard working people who have reached exhaustion or great competitive athletes who have reached failure. And I think that no, you can get burnout with a bad management of your life, your way of thinking, and with some really bad habits, and above all "stress that has not been successfully managed" [0].
I have recovered (or so I think) but I can't make as much mental effort as before, I feel that I reach my "limit" earlier, and that if I continue I can end up the same as before. But I can work on long term projects being constant. But I feel that I can't push myself like before.
[0] https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...
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