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You will do permanent damage to your brain if you choose the stress/burn down way! Besides all the research pointing to that fact, I myself has burned myself i
by andersthue 11y ago
You will do permanent damage to your brain if you choose the stress/burn down way!
Besides all the research pointing to that fact, I myself has burned myself into smitherines from stress and a toxic working enviroment. It took me two (2) years after my burnout to be able to work more than 2-3 hours a day and 4-5 years before I could work 8 hours a day for a week!
The brain is plastic, this means that it changes from stress and once you have overloaded it, it becomes more sensitive!
It's like breaking a bone - even though it grows back together, it will always be weaker.
- Swizec 11y agoNot disagreeing with the general point, but aren't bones stronger after a break? I thought that was the whole point of martial artist's punching hard stuff. That said, I also have burned out before and it is not fun. While I didn't have the long-lasting negative effects you describe, I have grown a strong reluctance towards working "long hours" on other people's ideas.
- CmonDev 11y agoMaybe he is an expert in both neuroscience AND bone surgery.
- andersthue 11y agoThey build scar tissue, not broken bones!
- throwaway1410 11y ago> Not disagreeing with the general point, but aren't bones stronger after a break? I thought that was the whole point of martial artist's punching hard stuff. They don't break the bones, but merely introduce microfractures.
- pjc50 11y agoI had a similar experience of burnout in a stressful startup environment. Recovery took a long time.