Just speaking personally, but a lot of the feelings of "burn out" I was experiencing since the start of the pandemic were actually not attributable to the work

Just speaking personally, but a lot of the feelings of "burn out" I was experiencing since the start of the pandemic were actually not attributable to the work I was doing, but rather the bad habits I picked up during the first year or so of the pandemic. Doom scrolling about news, a little too much time spent every day on social media (including hacker news), overloading myself with information and not really creating enough. It is especially easy to fall into these bad habits in a work from home environment where it is easy to get distracted if you don't have the discipline. What worked for me is actually identifying the patterns of my behavior everyday, and cutting things out. No more phone time from 8am to 12pm. No more reading about news after 12pm. Even those two things cut out a lot of nonsense time out of my day and after just a week I felt re-energized and re-focused. I wonder how much of the creeping burnout that seems to be affecting the workforce is a confluence of bad habits encroaching on actual productivity - social media addiction is a huge one, with people spending way too much time reading and interacting about people and news and events which have zero impact on them.