Burn out is not the kind of thing that i think we should make peace with, though. Getting over burn out as individuals will require us to make peace with our finitude. I recently read this wonderful book by oliver berkman called four thousand weeks, time management for mortals. And the message there is, recognize your finitude. You can't, you literally cannot do everything in the time that you have.
If you dread getting out of bed in the morning; if you are bad tempered with co-workers, clients or customers; if you leave work feeling an exhaustion that goes way beyond tiredness... it could be that you're burned out.
Jonathan Malesic felt all these things as a successful academic, and reflected wistfully on his previous job working as a parking lot attendant. Could it be that taking a high status, high paying job was making him miserable and pushing him beyond the limits of his endurance? Jonathan shares what he learned about burnout while researching his bookThe End Of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us, And How To Build Better Lives.
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