A piece of wisdom from
February 11, 2023 · Saturday
The quote
“Millennial burnout is not a problem of bad work-life balance. It is the lived consequence of a generation raised to optimise themselves into a labour market that has been engineered against them.”
— Anne Helen Petersen · Burnout
The concept
Burnout
Recovery from the modern plague, the WHO-recognised condition, the clinical instrument that diagnoses it, and the protocols that actually work.
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 startin…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Burnout. Recovery from the modern plague, the WHO-recognised condition, the clinical instrument that diagnoses it, and the protocols that actually work.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 6.5
उद्धरेदात्मनात्मानं नात्मानमवसादयेत्। आत्मैव ह्यात्मनो बन्धुरात्मैव रिपुरात्मनः॥
“Lift yourself by yourself; do not let yourself sink. For the self alone is the friend of the self, and the self alone is the enemy of the self.”
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