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How do you define being “burnt out”?

How do you define being “burnt out”?

I found this fellow’s definition intriguing:

burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work

– Keith Yost

This sounds so very insidious.

This was written by Grant. Posted on Monday, April 12, 2010, at 9:19 pm. Filed under Article. Tagged philosophy. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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Michael wrote:

I think that definition is missing one key thing: namely, that burn-out is, IMHO, caused by an excess of work–it is a form of exhaustion.

Laziness != burnout.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7:44 am | Permalink
Grant wrote:

Michael:

Agreed.

I had assumed a highly motivated individual here that wasn’t working more than 100hrs per week :)

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 12:35 pm | Permalink

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