Amy Hoy wrote a great comment about burnout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063 I wrote a comment about

Amy Hoy wrote a great comment about burnout: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633063 I wrote a comment about her comment on another article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10157608 I remember her writing something about burnout being to do with your brain being effectively trained to associate hard work with failure (but I can't find where she said that, so it might have been someone else). My strategy to self-heal was to put myself in situations or activities where I had many small-to-medium-sized wins.