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Burnout is breaking a sacred pact - by Cate Hall

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Burnout is breaking a sacred pact Here’s how to fix it Cate Hall Jan 07, 2026 914 98 107 Share I am a connoisseur of burnout. In my four decades on this earth, I’ve tasted many of its varieties — some subtle, some gross. There are Emmett Shear’s core three — permanent on-call, broken steering, and mission doubt — but many others too: burnout from constantly shifting goals, burnout from ruinous empathy that pulls you in a dozen directions at once, burnout from fake emergencies generated by leaders who don’t manage time well. My first major episode occurred at the end of college. I’d worked myse

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