What does it mean?
What does Burnout mean?
Burnout is Recovery from the modern plague — the WHO-recognised condition, the clinical instrument that diagnoses it, and the protocols that actually work.
Where it comes from
Christina Maslach · Emily & Amelia Nagoski · Cal Newport · Anne Helen Petersen · Arianna Huffington · Tony Schwartz · Br. The word lives in the long lineage of practice-oriented practice, but its specific shape is unmistakably Modern — and that shape is part of the answer.
What the practice actually is
Burnout is not "feeling tired." It is a WHO-recognised occupational phenomenon (ICD-11, 2019) with three measurable dimensions: emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced personal efficacy. Christina Maslach defined and measured it starting in 1981. Emily and Amelia Nagoski (2019) showed that the deepest mistake peopl…
If you want to go deeper
A short definition is a doorway, not a room. The full practice — the framework, the daily tools, the verses or maxims, the warnings, what to do today — lives in the concept hub below.