Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn how much of communication really is nonverbal, why darkness is faster than the

speed of light, and how to tell if you're burned

out and how to recover.

That's not us fast some curiosity.

Have you ever felt overworked and underappreciated?

People can get burned out at work or even with social events volunteering or your favorite hobbies.

Today we'll help you understand the different types of burnout and some ways to cope with it.

Cody, have you ever felt burned out?

Sure have. It's not a fun feeling. No, it's not. it. that I just quit a band. You did. Yeah, that's right. You can get burned out even if it's not work. Yeah, I love playing music, but if you do too much of anything you can start feeling burned out about it and I had to I had to look at my

schedule and pull back and like go easier on myself. For some background the word

burnout came from psychologist Herbert Friedenberger in 1974.

According to the Mental Health Resource Help Guide,

burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion

caused by excessive and prolonged stress.

So it's actually different than stress.

While stress can make you anxious and over-engaged, burnout tends to blunt your emotions and

make you disengaged and depressed. When you're on the road to burnout, you might start to notice that you're always tired,

you feel like nothing you do makes a difference,

and every day is a bad day.

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