Tagged: burnout

avoiding burnout

Burnout: Dustbowl of the Soul

From birth, America has been a culture built around a spirit of hard-charging entrepreneurship. However, something shifted in the twentieth century, and now every incentive structure imaginable seems custom-built to reward — and even...

avoiding burnout

21st Century Burnout

2008 was a dumpster fire. I was getting divorced smack dab in the middle of the global financial crisis. I’d built a company where I’d been living my professional dream for seven years. When...

Are You On the Road to Burnout?

Burnout: a state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion, brought on by long periods of stress without any breaks or recovery time. Seems like we’re all talking about it, and too many of us...