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by woodchuck64 3495 days ago
> Burnout is caused by a series of failures. Your brain is quick to pick up patterns and will assume your next attempt will be a failure.

I like the simplicity and elegance of that definition. It means work, pressure, "stress", pain, etc., are all completely irrelevant as long as there are enough successes over some interval of time.