Burnout and the art of not taking oneself too personally

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As a person who's prone to getting burned at work, I've come to realise that I'm often the one feeding the fire. It’s hard to take responsibility for burnout when our culture of glorified individualism and over-achievement has a lot to answer for, and when work-life boundaries get increasingly dissolved by technology, but we have to own anything we wish to change. And perhaps, while taking personal ownership for it, we can also take burnout less personally.

Overthinking and The Committee

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Who’s on your "committee”? As an overthinker, as well as a chronic pollster of others' opinions, I've come to wonder: What about the committee inside my own head? And what if talking to ourselves in the right way can help us to pacify the tiresome self-talk?