If you're one of the best in the world at your job, and that job paid ridiculously well,

made you rich, made you famous even, you'd want to hold on to that job forever, right? I mean,

it sounds fantastic. I mean, I would think you would want to hold on to that job forever, right? I mean, it sounds fantastic.

I mean, I would think you would want to hold on to it.

Unless, unless that job has just drained you of life,

taken everything out of you,

and you end up saying something like,

I don't have the physical drive, the emotional want,

and everything it takes to challenge yourself at the very top of the level anymore, I am spent.

That's a direct quote, by the way, that last part, from the Australian tennis player Ash Barty,

announcing her retirement just a couple weeks ago.

121 weeks ranked number one in the world, Wimbledon champion, won a bunch of other tournaments,

$23 million in winnings. She's 25. Ash Barty was burnt out, did not want to do this stuff anymore. And burnout is not limited to the

pro-tennis circuit. People in all lines of work, all over the world, are just hitting the goddamn

wall, reporting mental and physical exhaustion, not able to muster the will to go do it anymore.

They're walking away or breaking down or both.

I think it's important to talk about burnout on a mental health show

because when something like this happens, it's easy to blame yourself.

If you're the one burnt out. If you're in that situation,

it's easy to think, well, I must be weak or bad or lazy or something. It must be my fault

that work sucks so bad. But maybe don't pile that on your own overworked and overstressed

shoulders. We did an episode on the topic of burnout

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