slowing down

Physical exhaustion is another common sign. Dr. Gold said that one of her key symptoms of burnout was fatigue.

To use 10/10/10, we think about our decisions on three different time frames:

• How will we feel about it 10 minutes from now?

• How about 10 months from now?

• How about 10 years from now?

Work was a means to an end; it was something you did to earn the money to pay for the important things in life. This was the advice I was given as a university student, struggling to figure out what career to pursue in order to have the best chance at an important, meaningful job. I think my parents were rather baffled by my determination to find

One common burnout symptom is insomnia, Dr. Dyrbye said. When researchers in Italy surveyed frontline health care workers with burnout during the first peak of the pandemic, they found that 55 percent reported having difficulty falling asleep, while nearly 40 percent had nightmares.

Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape

The best way for an organization to fuel higher productivity and more innovative thinking is to strongly encourage finite periods of absorbed focus, as well as shorter periods of real renewal.

Lorde), all deep friendships generate something outside of themselves, some special and totally other third thing. Whether that thing can be sustained over time becomes the question.

The more hours you’ve put into this chaotic business of living, the more you crave a quieter, more nurturing third thing

Burnout, as it is defined, is not a medical condition — it’s “a manifestation of chronic unmitigated stress,”

If success is a catalyst for failure because it leads to the “undisciplined pursuit of more,” then one simple antidote is the disciplined pursuit of less .