From the course: How to Beat Burnout, Exhaustion, and Stress

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Burnout is more than overwork

Burnout is more than overwork

- [Male Voice] Is there a specific, precise, like scientific definition of burnout we use when we make such claims? - [Female Voice] Yes, thank you for asking that question. So burnout, a lot of people think burnout is just a consequence of overwork. Like, I overworked myself to the point of exhaustion so I burned out. And exhaustion and overwork are part of burnout but it's not the whole picture. It's a very complex issue. So there's actually three core components that research, especially research led by Christina Maslach, who is one of the pioneering researchers in this field, that make up burnout. So the first one is exhaustion. So that's the obvious one. That's when you feel like, you know, you go on a vacation and you don't feel replenished after the vacation. You take time off work. You don't feel better. You'll hear people say, "Like, I feel used up "by the end of the workday. "I feel tired when I have to get up…

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