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andymatuschak.org andymatuschak.org
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When the insight arrived, I didn’t notice the connection to the trail I’d laid on the preceding pages. My experience was of making no progress, and then, finally, making some. In hindsight, I can see that I had been making plenty of progress over those weeks; I just couldn’t tell at the time. I suspect this is pretty common in my work. So, “I feel like I’m not making progress” is probably not a good local heuristic for guiding my work. Alternately, the lesson might be that I need to become more sensitive to the many subtler flavors of progress in this kind of work
This rings true. The friction, the struggle is the work, at least when it comes to my knowledge work. Interesting is that when the jump happens I tend to phrase it as an escape, a way of fleeing forward. When I got stuck in a major research project in 2020, the key insight to unlock it was a gasp of desperation more than a bolt of lightning. Colleagues immediately told me that was the key, but to me it felt like using a cheat code. Now in hindsight, I think it was the best possible outcome but that oroginal sense of escape remains.
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ut I’ve also noticed that when I focus my work on particular people in particular contexts, that more immediate emotional connection sometimes overpowers the day-to-day frustration that comes with being lost in the woods. For several long stretches this year, I found the work really gratifying, both in the moment, and retrospectively over the long term.
Matuschak through focusing on specific people in a specific context, entering into a deeper emotional connection would provide meaning both in the now and over the long term. This certainly applies to my work #hazp08 and perhaps all my project that stand out in hindsight either have that or are singular efforts where the doing held such a link to myself.
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By contrast, when I’m doing work that I find gratifying and meaningful over the long term, the day-to-day experience is usually frustrating and unpleasant. The work is gratifying because it’s deep and personal and unique. Unfortunately, in my projects, those same attributes also mean that progress tends to be inconsistent and hard to discern; it’s rarely clear what to do next; there’s rarely anyone I can ask for help; I usually feel incapable.
I find the concepts behind my work meaningful, and enjoyable, but usualll not the work. The most enjoyable work usually is disconnected from anything else.
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Throughout my career, I’ve struggled with a paradox in the feeling of my work. When I’ve found my work quite gratifying in the moment, day-to-day, I’ve found it hollow and unsatisfying retrospectively, over the long term. For example, when I was working at Apple, there was so much energy; I was surrounded by brilliant people; I felt very competent, it was clear what to do next; it was easy to see my progress each day. That all felt great. But then, looking back on my work at the end of each year, I felt deeply dissatisfied: I wasn’t making a personal creative contribution. If someone else had done the projects I’d done, the results would have been different, but not in a way that mattered. The work wasn’t reflective of ideas or values that mattered to me. I felt numbed, creatively and intellectually.
[[Andy Matischak]] on the value and quality of his work. Over the long haul, he found his work (at Apple) meaningless, even if it felt good at the time. The statement 'if someonee alse had done the work' the results would have been similar chimes. My work may be seen by others as meaningful in the moment, but I only see that it doesn't matter in the long run. A million others for any of us. M writes he felt confident, I never had any answer to the question what I'm good at. I just get total internal silence in response, and always have gotten.
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- Jul 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoeQSegRW4&list=PL3NaIVgSlAVKWUrFOkDW7AEjXaiPQu_IM 3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Burning Out on YouTube
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- Oct 2023
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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05:00 hustle culture: do what you love, and do it aggressively, not loving the thing and working hard leads to burnout
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- Mar 2023
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isaac-scientific.com isaac-scientific.com
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his result pattern suggests that while negative emotionsmight lead to burnout, positive experiences on the job may have a protective effect.
Our support of teachers from professional, community, and personal levels can have tangible results.
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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These findings pinpoint the importance of imparting teachers with personal skills and with social skills in order to promote well-being and job satisfaction and cope better with burnout and depression. Hence, boosting teachers’ confidence in their capability essential for increasing the overall well-being and probably to improve the performance of the school
PD to focus on effective strategies, coping, and ways to manage stress helpful?
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emotional exhaustion, a feeling of cynicism, and a sense of personal and professional inefficiency
How is this different than demoralization?
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burnout is a “prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job”
Add to other definitions of burnout
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- Feb 2023
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www.heise.de www.heise.de
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Tatsächlich kostet es aber auch jede Menge Geld, wenn man es richtig machen möchte. Immerhin fallen Server, Strom, Backup & Co. nicht vom Himmel, sondern wollen bezahlt werden. Und solange eine allgemeine "Geiz ist geil"-Mentalität vorherrscht, funktioniert das nicht im großen Stil, denn dann tragen einige wenige die Kosten für ein größeres System. Das ist zutiefst unfair, das führt zu Burnout, das führt dazu, dass Menschen irgendwann keine Kraft mehr haben, sich zu engagieren. Solche Fälle gab und gibt es in der Open-Source-Szene immer wieder, und das wird an dieser Stelle nicht anders laufen.
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- Jan 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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the trip to korea is always a winter trip for me [music] [music] 00:13:16 if you are supposed to be on a subway platform, you immediately understand that you are in a tired society, you could say in a tired society in the final stage 00:13:30 the subways are supposed to be the same sleeping cars in which people decide whether they want to sleep after school everywhere and at different times in korea you can see people sleeping 00:13:44 people apparently people are fighting against permanent overtiredness very many people have long since succumbed to burnout and more than 100 die every year
!- Title : The Burnout Society !- Author : Philosopher Byung-Chul Han - the price for freedom, the price for the pathological advocacy of "Yes, we can" is compulsion to achieve high goals, and failure and depression when it cannot be realistically achieve - the goal, as promoted is far too lofty and failure is all but assured
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- Jul 2022
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commoncog.com commoncog.com
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The only thing that works is to remove yourself from the environment that is causing burnout, and then taking the time off to recover.
The only way to prevent burnout
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- Jan 2022
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www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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Baig, Abdul Mannan. ‘Counting the Neurological Cost of COVID-19’. Nature Reviews Neurology 18, no. 1 (January 2022): 5–6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-021-00593-7.
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- Aug 2021
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Pham, Q. T., Le, X. T. T., Phan, T. C., Nguyen, Q. N., Ta, N. K. T., Nguyen, A. N., Nguyen, T. T., Nguyen, Q. T., Le, H. T., Luong, A. M., Koh, D., Hoang, M. T., Pham, H. Q., Vu, L. G., Nguyen, T. H., Tran, B. X., Latkin, C. A., Ho, C. S. H., & Ho, R. C. M. (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 on the Life and Work of Healthcare Workers During the Nationwide Partial Lockdown in Vietnam. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 563193. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.563193
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twitter.com twitter.com
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The BMJ. (2021, March 1). “It’s really important we don’t situate vaccine hesitancy and low uptake of the vaccine as a problem of particular individuals or communities." @ProfKevinFenton joins the #DeepBreathIn podcast to talk covid vaccines and their uptake http://ow.ly/iIXf50DMtDE http://ow.ly/dAzS50DMtDF https://t.co/FEJAvBODLf [Tweet]. @bmj_latest. https://twitter.com/bmj_latest/status/1366407891419283456
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- Mar 2021
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Spagnoli, Paola, Carmela Buono, Liliya Scafuri Kovalchuk, Gennaro Cordasco, and Anna Esposito. ‘Perfectionism and Burnout During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Two-Wave Cross-Lagged Study’. Frontiers in Psychology 11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.631994.
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- Feb 2021
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railscasts.com railscasts.com
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my transition to working on RailsCasts full time is the primary cause for me burning out.
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www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com
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Williams, C. (n.d.). Pandemic burnout: Do you have it and what can you do about it? New Scientist. Retrieved 5 February 2021, from https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24933202-400-pandemic-burnout-do-you-have-it-and-what-can-you-do-about-it/
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- Dec 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Długosz, P., & Kryvachuk, L. (2020). Neurotic generation of Covid-19 in Eastern Europe. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mwhzk
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- Nov 2020
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Weibelzahl, S., Reiter, J., & Duden, G. (2020). Pandemic-Induced Depression and Anxiety in Healthcare Professionals. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5rehd
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- Oct 2020
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- Jul 2020
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osf.io osf.io
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Sultana, A., Sharma, R., Hossain, M. M., Bhattacharya, S., & Purohit, N. (2020). Burnout Among Healthcare Providers During COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Evidence-based Interventions [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/4hxga
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Hayes, S., Priestley, J. L., Ishmakhametov, N., & Ray, H. E. (2020). “I’m not Working from Home, I’m Living at Work”: Perceived Stress and Work-Related Burnout before and during COVID-19 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vnkwa
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Długosz, P. (2020). Neurotic coronavirus generation? The report from the second wave of research on the students from Kraków [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6ecr7
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Senior, J. (2020, May 3). Opinion | What One Doctor’s Suicide Taught Us. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/opinion/coronavirus-doctors-mental-health.html
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- May 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Blanchard, M. A., & Heeren, A. (2020). Why We Should Move from Reductionism and Embrace a Network Approach to Parental Burnout? [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y34cq
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Johnson, S. U., Ebrahimi, O. V., & Hoffart, A. (2020, May 20). Level and Predictors of PTSD Symptoms Among Health Workers and Public Service Providers During the COVID-19 Outbreak. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w8c6p
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Urbina, A. (2020, May 8). What do we know about University Academics’ Mental Health? A Systematic Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/37jhr
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- Mar 2020
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Often, even with the proliferation of software in employee’s desktops, many employees still report disconnection and burnout.
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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Télétravail et burn-out
Nous avons là un titre simple, mais en apparence seulement. Car la liaison grammaticale établie entre les deux termes "télétravail" et "burn-out" dit déjà que l'auteure fait l'hypothèse d'une causalité, ou au moins d'une corrélation, entre ces deux notions. En l'occurrence, le télétravail pourrait conduire au burn-out. C'est la position que va ensuite défendre l'auteure.
Précisons d'ailleurs que, dans le corps de l'article, l'auteure aborde d'abord la question du burn-out, puis seulement celle du télétravail. On pouvait donc s'attendre à ce qu'elle intitule son article "Burn-out et télétravail". L'inversion des termes me semble dès lors très significative de la direction de la corrélation.
En bref : on a, dans ces deux mots et leur liaison, tout l'article en résumé. Le télétravail n'est pas une réponse satisfaisante au burn-out mais, au contraire, le télétravail peut mener au burn-out là où il est censé le soigner.
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- Feb 2020
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about.gitlab.com about.gitlab.com
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Don't let burnout creep up on you. Working remotely can allow us to create bad habits, such as working straight through lunch to get something finished. Once in a while this feels good, perhaps to check that nagging task or big project off the list, but don't let this become a bad habit. Before long, you'll begin to feel the effects on your body and see it in your work.
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When you recognize symptoms of burnout in others, help them to get out the "Burnout trap". Don't just tell people to take a break, but help them arrange things so they can take a break. Ask why they feel they can't take a break (there are almost certainly real, concrete reasons) and then ask permission to get busy putting things in place that will overcome those barriers. People might be trapped by their own fatigue, being too worn out to find the creative solutions needed to take a break.
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- Oct 2019
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www.teamblind.com www.teamblind.com
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stackoverflow.blog stackoverflow.blog
- Sep 2019
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www.atlassian.com www.atlassian.com
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these signs will help you prevent burnout before it starts – or work to fix it if you need a way out.
Ways to beat burnout:
- Take less job responsibilities
- Identify what gives you energy, and what drains it
- Manage your digital distractions
- Don't give all of your energy to work
- Just say "no" to too many projects
- Make self care a priority
- Lean on your support network
- Manage well
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People who feel burned out at work find their home life is more likely to suffer too. This may be because when jobs get more demanding, people put more time and resources into them, often at the expense of their private lives.
Burnout also affects your private life
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57% reported feeling like they need to check in with work – even when they are on vacation
Need to be "on the call" even after the work is one of the greatest burnout symptoms
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these symptoms suggest that you may be more than stressed:
Symptoms of a burnout:
- You’ve become cynical or critical at work
- You drag yourself to work and have trouble getting started
- You’re irritable or impatient with co-workers, customers or clients
- You lack the energy to be consistently productive
- You find it hard to concentrate
- You lack satisfaction from your achievements
- You feel disillusioned about your job
- You use food, drugs or alcohol to feel better or to simply not feel
- Your sleep habits have changed
- You’re troubled by unexplained headaches, stomach or bowel problems, or other physical complaints
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when the feeling of being completely overwhelmed at work persists, it can spiral into burnout – a growing epidemic with serious consequences for your health and your career.
How burnout starts and what it is
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- Jun 2016
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IttookonlysixyearsbeforeIwantedtoquitteaching.Ihadbecomeincreasinglyunhappywithmyteachingandmystudents’learning.Iwastiredoflaboringthroughhoursandhoursofmarking,andIhatednaggingkidstocompletetheirhomework.Insteadofstudentsasking“Whatisthisquestionworth?”Iwantedthemtoactuallygetexcitedaboutthecontent.Iwantedchange,andIcameclosetothinkingthatchangerequiredmetoleavetheprofession
On how quickly poor teaching burns out teachers.
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