By contrast, negative challenge is doing things outside of our comfort zone that make us unjustly uncomfortable and don’t align with anything we’re hoping to move toward. Where positive challenge offers value, negative challenge drains us.

The more you believe that life is an experience and not a performance, the less stress and disappointment you’ll feel.

The most beneficial pillars of burnout management for those suffering from burnout by boredom are mindset, personal care (which you’ll learn also includes lifestyle design to help set goals and create momentum), and time management.

A calm, reasonable response results in the exact same outcome as a punishing one—fixing the mistake—but it does so without the fire hose of criticism and stress.

The most beneficial—and difficult—shift a high achiever can make is identifying and prioritizing values outside of achievement.

If you’re willing to be extreme with it, toss out the way you currently do things and start from square one.

When we see high achievers in action we assume they have everything. In reality, they often have one thing. If the cost of achievement is everything else in your life, then the cost is too high.

Your mindset is the lens through which you see the world. If that lens causes you to judge yourself, live in fear of what others think, ruminate on stressors constantly, hold yourself to unattainable standards, or never be content, you will be more likely to burn out, and to burn out more often.

Listening to our thoughts and acknowledging when we might be erroneously projecting helplessness is the first step toward correcting this behavior.