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From In Over Our Heads Related: pain is not the unit of effort

Freudenberger (who first coined the term burnout): “[it is] almost always an indication that the person’s goals have been externally imposed. Somehow [they] embarked on his present course because it was expected of [them]… [they were] never the authentic source of [their own] choices and consequently they afford little real satisfaction” Maslach describes the “burnout prone individual” as one who mostly yield to the other without adapting to their own capacity: “is often unable to exert control over a situation and will passively yield to its demands rather than actively limiting them to his c

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