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While a lot of what's written in that article sounds fearfully familiar, I think he's taking it too far, by referring only to the most extreme forms of burn-out
by eliben 16y ago
While a lot of what's written in that article sounds fearfully familiar, I think he's taking it too far, by referring only to the most extreme forms of burn-out. Burn-out can be temporary and mild, and I suspect this defines most of the cases. For example, a few weeks of low productivity (not 0!) with a recovery within a month or so.
- InclinedPlane 16y agoYeah. This sort of burn-out is definitely the extreme, but it's also the rarest. I think there's a far more common level of burn-out (perhaps "brown-out") which misses a few of the more serious symptoms and yet seriously impacts ongoing productivity and motivation. The danger of defining burn-out as only this extreme is that there are a lot of people with milder though serious cases who may not appreciate that it's a problem.