Are You Burned Out, or Just Tired?

You’ve hit your goals, kept everyone happy, and earned a little time off. So why doesn’t a weekend away fix the exhaustion? In Breaking Burnout: How High Achievers Break the Success Myths Driving Exhaustion, Overwork, and Burnout, former C-suite executive Nabeela Elsayed examines the ideas about achievement that keep us working past our limits. But understanding exhaustion also means noticing work that rarely gets counted. In her 2023 book Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power, journalist Rose Hackman explores the effort of managing other people’s feelings—and why that burden falls so unevenly. Together, they ask what changes when we stop treating self-sacrifice as part of the job.⁠⁠⁠⁠

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