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The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
Susan would complain that the present, the life she was living moment to moment, felt unreal to her. Only the future really mattered, for that was where her ideal life resided. “If I just wait a little longer”, she would remark in a tone of wry despondency, “there’ll be this magically transformative event and everything will come right.”
This belie
... See morekierantie.com • Recovering From Burnout and Depression - Kieran Tie
“You feel burnout when you’ve exhausted all your internal resources, yet cannot free yourself of the nervous compulsion to go on regardless.”
Anne Helen Petersen • Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
emotional exhaustion.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
Ness Labs • The Three Types of Burnout and How to Cope With Them - Ness Labs
This also meant that burnout might be unavoidable which motivated Freudenberger to ask two provocative questions: What if the value system of the institution is diametrically opposed to the values, ethics, and competencies of the individual professional? What if the individual professional seeks to live up to the external, organizationally imposed
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
When I have nothing but time for more than six months or so, my depression soars. My anxiety about money is through the roof. And the pressure to make something out of each day, when all I’m really doing is writing little words on my little Word Doc, words that people may never see and I may never get paid for—all while convincing myself, in the se
... See moreEmily J. Smith • Unpacking the “Day Job”
Burnout is a necessary step to awakening to our potential, like a wakeup call alerting us to what is needed to grow into our potential.