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Re:Is Our Definition of Burnout All Wrong? by breck on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:31PM (#33698247)
Yes. Don't even need to read it. Anytime you read the sentence "our definition" it's wrong. There is no such thing as "burn out". It's a marketing term. Practice root thinking (https://breckyunits.com/root-thinking.html). Ignore marketing buzz words, especially if they come from social sciences like psychology, psychiatry, et cetera.

Obviously fatigue is a thing and you need rest, but don't believe anyone who tells you you have some easily labeled condition—it's almost always B.S.

Re:Is Our Definition of Burnout All Wrong? by quickthrower2 on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:42PM (#33698394)
You need to hold in your mind two completing concepts. One is that you might have a condition, and that condition may not be fully understood by medical science, and need some self-experimentation (for example, meditation, diet, blood tests, psychotherapy, drugs). The other concept is that it might blow over with rest, time or a change in thinking patterns and there is nothing to fix. Since you can't know which is true, both need to be nurtured!
Re:Is Our Definition of Burnout All Wrong? by breck on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:57PM (#33698610)
Agreed. I think the problem is we have 100 "conditions" for every 1 actual physical condition.
Re:Is Our Definition of Burnout All Wrong? by rzzzt on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:56PM (#33699340)
> All ideas are trees. All products start as ideas. Therefore all products are trees.

The conclusion or the second premise should be changed to make the former a true statement. So either "Therefore all products start as trees" or "All products are ideas".

Re:Is Our Definition of Burnout All Wrong? by lknfrnpt on Monday November 21, 2022 @08:09PM (#33700526)
"It's a marketing term"

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"Practice root thinking [1]"

[1] "Term _I_ coined"

Re:Is Our Definition of Burnout All Wrong? by breck on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:25AM (#33707498)
Term I _coined_ but also _discovered_. There's a big difference ;)