>I don't really believe in burnout. A lot of people work really hard for decades and decades, like Winston Churchill and Einstein," says Mayer, a former Google

>I don't really believe in burnout. A lot of people work really hard for decades and decades, like Winston Churchill and Einstein," says Mayer, a former Google engineer and one of Google's earliest employees. Logic like this is so baffling. Look, I can think of one or two people that don't seem to suffer form X, so clearly X doesn't exist! Alternate explanation: Churchill and Einstein were freakish and don't represent normal humans, thus using them as exemplars is likely not going to be useful. The rest is just her extrapolating her personal experience as a template to be writ large with 0 evidence behind its accuracy other than her claims that it 'worked for her' (maybe, people have an amazing ability to conflate 'I was succesful' with 'what I did clearly is right/effective').