If you can’t give yourself the gift of thinking in new ways about the world of work and what you’ve been taught, you will not break the burnout cycle. 

If learning is about addition, you can think of unlearning as subtraction. It is an active process of reframing all the things we’ve been told about work that lead us to overwork, stress and burnout. 

The three types of burnout and how to recognize them in your own work life.

The thing about overidentifying with work is that it leads to perfectionism and burnout and lower satisfaction overall with life. You lose sense of who you really are and what matters to you as you put all of your energy and soul into a job or career that has very little to offer back.

But, in a strange way, burning out was the best thing that ever happened to me and my career. It changed everything. I was a type A perfectionist who had been working non-stop since age 14. Burning out forced me to slow down and reflect on why.

No, you don’t have to quit your job to re-define the future of work. Beyond the great resignation.