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The Unlikely Cure for Burnout? A Second Job
Burnout has been traditionally defined as a combination of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency. When we are burned out, we don’t have the emotional energy to invest ourselves into work, we distance ourselves from colleagues and customers, and we may feel incompetent as a result.
Ness Labs • The Three Types of Burnout and How to Cope With Them - Ness Labs
Amidst the omnipresence of work, can our minds ever stop identifying with the constant need to produce?
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
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
This is the tricky thing about burnout. If you are suffering from burnout, you are likely not thriving at work, and over time it’s easy to see yourself as the cause. Add to this the common assumption that you should never leave a job too soon and you get a world in which millions of people are experiencing the slow, marginal creep of burnout and ha
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
When overworking is our identity, we lose track of who we actually are, and in the process, we stop living actual lives.