Being burned out like he’s describing is a physical phenomenon, like many neuropsychological problems. It’d be nice if we advanced the state of our knowledge about these things beyond “just being burned out.” I’m skeptical as well about “burned the glucose out of my brain” being a good physical explanation, but there’s a physical thing going on.

We often treat burnout as an idea thing. (And this somewhat makes sense as ideas are incredibly powerful.) Having more insight into the physical (ie chemical and/or mechanical) mechanism of burnout would be interesting and probably very helpful.