#burnout

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system. ↗

— Sam Keen

#depression #wisdom #nature

How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#intensity #stress #death

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now. ↗

— David Obey

#care #enough #enough people #fields #get

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out. ↗

— Charles Sheffield

#burnout #cynicism #age

Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you. ↗

— Despair Inc.

#burnout #attitude

When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their neediness. There is a risk that helpers become too well-practiced at taking a bleak view of those they have avowed to assist. There is a temptation to begin to blame clients for their failure to improve. If treatment ends pre-maturely, with either a client never returning to treatment or a helper 'firing' them out of frustration, there is a tendency for the client to take the fall. Of course what we are talking about here are signs of burnout. ↗

— Scott E. Spradlin

#compassion #counseling #dbt #dialectical #effectiveness

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#beat #burnout #giving #giving up #i

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. ↗

— Bill Owens

#active role #burnout #headed #hurry #lead

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly