Parker Palmer - Burnout Is Often About Trying to Give What We Don't Have to Give
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Parker Palmer - Burnout Is Often About Trying to Give What We Don't Have to Give
He found that the prime candidates for burnout were those who were “dedicated and committed,” trying to balance their need to give, to please others, and to work hard.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
Malesic, however, is interested in more than tracing burnout’s clinical history. A scholar of religion, he diagnoses burnout as an ailment of the soul. It arises, he contends, from a gap between our ideals about work and our reality of work. Americans have powerful fantasies about what work can provide: happiness, esteem, identity, community. The r... See more
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Keely Adler added
Trying to live someone else's life, or to live by an abstract norm, will invariably fail-and may even do great damage.Vocation,
Parker J. Palmer • Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
People who are burning out often serve out of habit, on automatic pilot, rarely or never stopping to ask: why
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
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The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced. In his 1960 novel “A Burnt-Out Case” (the title may have helped bring the term into general circulation), Graham Gre
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Burnout is an indicator that something has gone wrong in the way we organize our work. But as a concept it remains lodged in an old paradigm—a work ethic that was already dubious in America’s industrial period, and now, in a period of extreme inequality and increasing precarity across once-stable professions, is even harder to credit.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Keely Adler added
I think that’s where the burnout really hurts—when you want to care about something but you’re removed from the capacity to do the thing or do it properly and give it your passion and full attention and creativity because you’re expected to do so many other things.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The psychologist Christina Maslach, a foundational figure in burnout research—the Maslach Burnout Inventory is the standard burnout assessment—sees burnout as having three components: exhaustion; cynicism or depersonalization (detectable in doctors, for example, who see their patients as “problems” to be solved, rather than people to be treated); a... See more
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Keely Adler added