What Causes Burnout?
Spoiler: burnout is not your fault.
5 min readAug 26, 2021
Burnout is not just a bad day, or week, or even a challenging month. Burnout is an ongoing state of extreme exhaustion, cynicism, reduced capacity and loss of identity.
Understanding why burnout happens is essential for a healthy future of work, and, well, a healthy future of us: burnout is a massive issue for individuals, organizations and…