From the course: Managing Career Burnout
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Burnout's root causes
To understand how burnout can turn a hardworking and engaged professional into a cynical shell of their former self, you have to understand burnout's four root causes: a lack of rest, agency, purpose, and community. Let's break each of those down. A lack of rest. When you're chronically underslept, never have time for fun during the average work week, and haven't taken a real vacation in years, your risk for burnout increases. A lack of agency. When it feels like you're not sitting in the driver seat, like life is just coming at you, or like you don't have any choice or power over your day to day, your sense of agency wanes and your risk for burnout increases. A lack of purpose. When your day to day work pays your bills but doesn't feed your soul, when it feels like nothing you're contributing to makes a positive difference in the world, or like you're not having the impact you want in this lifetime, you risk…
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