Jason Fried

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

American Businessman

Darryl Pinckney

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

American Novelist

Diana Nyad

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

American Author

Grant Morrison

Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

Scottish Writer

Arianna Huffington

Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.

American Journalist

Dave Obey

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.

American Politician

Elena Delle Donne

That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.

American Athlete

Patrick Pichette

It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.

Canadian Businessman

Tony Evans

Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.

Canelo Alvarez

I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

Mexican Athlete

Use 'burnout' to express severe exhaustion, not for minor tiredness.

Avoid Overuse

'Burnout' is often linked to work and can include emotional drain.

Work-Related Stress

When discussing overcoming 'burnout', suggest positive actions.

Recovery Context

In electronics, 'burnout' implies a device stopped working, usually fixable.

Technical Failures

Use 'burnout' to warn about using electronics excessively without breaks or cooling.

Cautionary Reference

In racing, 'burnout' refers to a specific action performed before the event starts.

Pre-Race Ritual

'Burnout' is a casual term in motorsport, less likely in formal contexts.

Motorsport Slang

 sometimes it takes a wake-up call doesn't it to to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lie instead of actually living them that we're living the fast life instead of the good life and I think for many people that wake-up call takes the form of an illness you know a burnout or eventually the body says I can't take it

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 who can do them no good. And let's face it, you all know you can learn a lot about character by watching how someone treats their restaurant server or their Uber driver. So if we do all this well, if we can weed takers out of organizations, if we can make it safe to ask for help, if we can protect givers from burnout

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 a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives, instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life, instead of the good life. And I think for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. You know, a burnout, or eventually the body says,

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 to help you enforce good boundaries. Even if your desk is in your kitchen, make it feel like a workplace. For space, build in some alone time every day. And this includes time away from your kids. It's really key to avoiding burnout. Finally, if you're a manager,

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 Next time on WorkLife. Conrey This feeling of being trapped in this system where you're on, like, a hamster wheel. You know, you're kind of, like, doing a lot, but is it really changing anything? Job burnout seems to be everywhere.

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 this person is joyful, this person suffers. But empathy alone is not sufficient. If you keep on being confronted with suffering, you might have empathic distress, burnout, so you need the greater sphere of loving-kindness.

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 individual efforts for the lack of cooperation. Stress, burnout, they are overwhelmed, accidents. No wonder they disengage. How do the hard and the soft try to foster cooperation? The In banks, when there is a problem

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 when you want to do a burnout tons of fun coming through coming through yeah yeah you know you can ride a tricycle we can you ride one of my more delightful contraptions Johnny tried to build a penny-farthing that

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 So our layperson's definition of burnout is, as you said, that feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted by everything you have to do, while still worrying that you're not doing enough. Mm hmm.

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 which is often caused by the stress and burnout of our always-on culture. Despite knowing better, I, too, have found myself focusing on “urgent work distractions” over important life moments.