slowing down

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

So often we spend life simply existing, but to live is the rarest thing in the world.

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

All the best, happiest, and most creatively productive times in my life have something in common: being disconnected.

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 .

Headaches and stomachaches can also be incited by burnout

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.

When you’re engaged at work, fully engage, for defined periods of time. When you’re renewing, truly renew. Make waves. Stop living your life in the gray zone.

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