Burnout

What kind of life do you want to build? What values do you want your work to reflect? What skills do you want to develop? How do you want to contribute to the world around you? What kind of people do you want to work alongside?

And then:

What are you willing to sacrifice for those things? What discomfort are you willing to endure? What would make you

Good work should do at least one of these things: fund the life you actually want to live, align with values you can defend at dinner parties, surround you with people who challenge you to grow, or teach you skills that compound like interest over decades. Great work does several of these at once

used to believe this too, quietly, in the way most of us do. i thought that the people who stayed up the latest, who answered emails at 1 a.m., who wore their dark circles like medals, were the ones really going places. i mistook their depletion for discipline. i convinced myself that if i just kept pushing, kept crossing off tasks while my body