[snarfy]

Burnout is a syndrome that happens from a series of failures, resulting in your brain automatically associating work with failure.

The cure for burnout is a series of successes. You need to retrain your brain to associate work with success. Start small. Don't take on more than you can handle. Quit trying to make the uber server app and write a few simple command line utilities that work and work well.

[stevenkovar]

Burnout is like being sleep deprived; you can be wildly successful and still burn out if you don't give yourself time to mentally sort through all the ideas and toss out the trash, even if just subconsciously.

When you've been working too hard for too long, small problems can feel like big issues because the cumulative weight of all the stuff going through your mind.

Clarity is tough to maintain.

[stupejr]

This, I'm so sick of hearing burnout stories, you're responsible for how you're feeling. When you take the stance of the "victim" all the time you set yourself up for failure.

I see countless people attribute "failures" that had nothing to do with themselves to them just so they feel like they have some control over the situation and then wind up feeling burnt out when they're accepting the responsibility for the entire companies success or doom. Then they're asking why they're feeling so burnt out and can't completely their daily responsibilities that they actually have.