> Does that mean that from just working extremely hard, you can never (very likely) get a burnout? Dashrath Manjhi ran away from his home at a young age and wo

> Does that mean that from just working extremely hard, you can never (very likely) get a burnout? Dashrath Manjhi ran away from his home at a young age and worked at Dhanbad's coal mines. He returned to his village and married Phalguni Devi. While crossing Gehlour hills to bring him lunch, she slipped and seriously injured herself, which eventually led to her death. Manjhi was deeply disturbed and that very night decided to carve a path through the Gehlour hills so that his village could have easier access to medical attention. He carved a path 360-feet-long (110 m), 25-feet-deep (7.6 m) in places and 30-feet-wide (9.1 m) to form a road through the rocks in Gehlour hill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi Not a statistical argument (which your words suggest you expected), but I think it agrees with the spirit of the article - you can find motivation for truly crazy stunts if you focus on obtaining future good emotions instead of avoiding present bad emotions. Working to avoid losing the rat race is a burnout-prone kind of motivation, for example.