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Burnout Isn't a Badge of Honour
Exhaustion is not evidence of commitment. The earlier signs are easy to miss, and much easier to act on.
Burnout rarely arrives as a single dramatic moment. It builds through a series of weeks that each seemed survivable on their own.
Earlier signals than exhaustion
- Work you used to enjoy now feels flat rather than hard.
- Recovery takes longer — a weekend stops being enough.
- You are increasingly cynical about things you used to care about.
- Small requests feel disproportionately irritating.
None of these mean you are failing. They mean the current pace is not sustainable, and that is a solvable problem — usually faster with someone helping you look at it.