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The most important part of burnout is that it's about yourself, but it's also about others.

One of my New Year's resolutions was to be less burnt out. Maybe you can relate. You think, I'm going to better manage my stress this year. I'm

going to make time for activities that I find nourishing and finally nail that work-life balance.

But just a few weeks into January, I found myself hitting a wall.

The sense of renewal of a new year didn't manifest.

The burnout I felt from 2023 had followed me all the way into February. Burnout feels like something

that descends upon you and then is impossible to shake off. A 2021 study found that around

three and five employees felt symptoms of burnout and COVID didn't make it easier. More people

found that their lives were getting more unmanageable during the pandemic,

not less. When my resolution to fix my burnout with effort didn't work, I wanted to go back to the

beginning of burnout story and understand what it is. I'm Shayla Love, and you're listening to

Scientific Americans Science Quickly. Today and you're listening to Scientific Americans Science Quickly.

Today, we're revisiting the concept of burnout, a word people used to describe how they feel exhausted, psychically tired with their jobs that they may love or drained by the other

obligations in their never-ending to-do lists.

I didn't start out with any particular interest or plan to study burnout because I'd never

heard about something like that.

That's Christina Maslach, a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley,

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