What You Think Burnout Is
Doing too much of the work you love.
What Burnout Actually Is
Mindlessly drilling a skill that you’ve already mastered to make money solving a problem that you’ve already solved, while there are 10 people in your life who need you to teach them that very skill, and there are 5 bigger, badder problems on the horizon that you have failed to even identify yet.
Read my full breakdown on Medium:
How to Love Working: 6 stages of work and the unique joy that each offers