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Re:How to Burn Out Programming by dnautics on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @02:52AM (#7223108)
I posted a while back about this, but my belief is that burnout stems from a repeated failure to be timely rewarded for effort that then results in conditioning to avoid labor to prevent the negative prediction error.

Tips that don't address the root cause are fine but think about the mechanism.

Re:How to Burn Out Programming by duochrome on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @04:41AM (#7223401)
Make sense to me.

Then, burnout is a smart activity.

Burnout is protecting you!