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Anne Helen Petersen on changing your relationship to work and the guardrails that can prevent burnout

How to Be a Better Human

CHAPTER

The Difference Between Burnout and Demoralization

There's a difference between burnout and demoralization, which is a concept that I really learned about from an education professor named Dolores Centiero. She talks a lot about how demoralization differs in that you no longer can do your job in a way that feels ethical and right with what is available to you. It's not just like, I'm really tired and I feel an inspired kind of thing; it's more of an ethical conundrum. And so I want to talk about how we can come back from burnout, but I feel like actually, we have to address this bigger thing, which is all these different types of burnout.

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