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To me, burnout is putting large amounts of mental and emotional energy into an activity where you don't have much agency on how it is done, or the outcome. That
by camdenreslink 2y ago
To me, burnout is putting large amounts of mental and emotional energy into an activity where you don't have much agency on how it is done, or the outcome. That can happen in entrepreneurship, but much more common in corporate life. The actual amount of work leading to burnout is only a small component IMO.
- klabb3 2y agoSpot on. You don’t get burnout from boring tedious work. That’s a completely different form of exhaustion. > That can happen in entrepreneurship, but much more common in corporate life. Yeah but it’s not at all limited to traditional work. A common source of burnout is family issues. People burn out taking care of others, especially someone with psychological or substance abuse problems. Or co-dependence, terminal illnesses. Those things can become worse by trying harder, and that’s a potent recipe for burnout.
- sofixa 2y ago> You don’t get burnout from boring tedious work Yep, that's a different thing called bore-out.