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You're not burning out because you're tired — EA Forum

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As both a manager and someone who trains coaches to help people through burnout, I think your last three suggestions are killer! Figure out what you're missing and ask for it. What do you need from your work to feel nourished? Autonomy? Positive feedback? A sense of completion? More social connection? Everyone is different here, and you'll learn over time what you need. But you have to actually ask for it and make it happen, rather than assuming the mission will eventually reward you. I've never met anyone who has acted on this too soon. If you're slaying, you might be shocked how much you organisation will be willing to adjust to keep you. That said, every day you perform without adjustments strengthens the argument you don't need adjustments and every day you don't perform is evidence they'd be better off hiring someone else. It never gets easier. Schedule a meeting with someone ASAP! Seek outside help. Find a coach or therapist you can talk to about your relationship to work, to imp

This post was co-written with Claude. I burned out badly a few years ago. I've since had several conversations with people in the EA community who are heading toward burnout themselves, and I noticed they were sometimes thinking about it in ways that I worry wouldn't help them. So I want to share what I think is actually going on, and what I wish someone had told me earlier. A theory of burnout There are good models of the mechanism of burnout already out there. Anna Salamon has written about willpower as a kind of internal currency: your conscious planner "earns" trust with your deeper,…

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