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Your Body Knows You’re Burned Out
Covid brought in its train a parallel epidemic of worker exhaustion. The stress and social dislocation resulting from a poorly managed, seemingly interminable public health emergency put limits on what workers could tolerate. Yet burnout’s ubiquity cannot be attributed to Covid alone.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
It is a self-created condition that is mainly brought on by long-term stress and worry and is your mind and body’s way of telling you that it has been overworked. Your body is trying to communicate with you and tell you to slow down and take things easy.
Paul David • At Last A Life
Workplace Burnout is Nothing New - JSTOR Daily
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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
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
... See moreYou are not tired because you are unable to manage your time properly. You are not depleted because of the mountain of work you have to do, or because of your inability to handle the workload. You are not exhausted because you are weaker or less willing than others.