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Recovering From Burnout and Depression - Kieran Tie
Burnout
This X post by Emmett Shear (most famous for being CEO of Twitch) had a huge impact on how I think about burnout.
Emmett describes 3 main causes of burnout (paraphrased):
This X post by Emmett Shear (most famous for being CEO of Twitch) had a huge impact on how I think about burnout.
Emmett describes 3 main causes of burnout (paraphrased):
- Permanent On-call: Never having true time off, because work can always reach you (or in the case of very intense jobs, because the work never actually ends). I had always co
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How are some people ‘burn-out’ proof?
In short, I was mentally, emotionally, and physically burnout. But it took me a long time to figure it out because I wasn’t listless or unproductive or disengaged from my work. The problem was: All I was engaged with was my work. And that was causing me to work in a way that was utterly unsustainable.
Jocelyn Glei • Confessions of a Burnt Out Over-Achiever
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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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When Elliot protests that he can’t just do nothing, he is seeing and judging himself from the perspective of a culture that looks with disdain at anything that smacks of inactivity. Under constant self-scrutiny as to whether he is being sufficiently productive, he feels ashamed when he judges himself to have come up short in this regard. But this l
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