This is a great advice! I've been using a similar healing strategy for my last burn out. Essentially the desire to do something is the brain's expected reward f

This is a great advice! I've been using a similar healing strategy for my last burn out. Essentially the desire to do something is the brain's expected reward for doing such thing. Burn out happens when the expected reward has become negative due to recent cycles of the feedback loop (i.e. constantly failing on a project). What you want to do is something that is guaranteed to succeed. After some cycle of work => success feedbacks (how long this takes various) you'll feel better about work and be as productive as before.