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The Constant Restlessness You Feel Has a Name
Do we really need to say that the only viable way for making a difference in the world has to be from this place of deficit? Do we all have to be what psychologists call “insecure overachievers” who are doing lots of things in the world but doing them fundamentally to fill a void or plug a hole?
So where I’m headed with all of this is to try to salv... See more
So where I’m headed with all of this is to try to salv... See more
Opinion | Burned Out? Start Here.
This isn't about lowering our ambitions - it's about elevating them. Trading the superficial for the substantial, rigidity for resilience, and the exhausting pursuit of "crushing it" for the satisfaction of building something meaningful. Because perhaps true success isn't measured in inbox zeros, but in creating a life that doesn't feel like someth... See more
Finally, decades of research on motivation and burnout shows that striving toward a goal is most sustainable and fulfilling when your drive comes from deep within. Not from the need—or for some, the addiction, and a hard one to shake—to receive external validation.
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
“Heroic individualism and its most prevalent symptoms — restlessness, feeling rushed, low-level angst, scattered mess, exhaustion, burnout, periods of emptiness, a compulsion to keep chasing the next thing, and recurrent longing — all of which are supported by mounting data that we’ll soon examine, describe what so many people report feeling these ... See more