Finding that balance on Yerkes-Dodson Law

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i've past the high stress level for the past few months, finally took a week off last week, lowkey feeling the same, but a little better

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The longer you stress yourself out the more time off you need

The quicker to rest you are the less stress you’ll have in the long run and the easier it is to recover

I have friends who’ve ended up in the burnout / breakdown part of the curve and some of them have taken years to recover fully or have yet to recover after months. Burn out is very real imo

The key to burnout is to stare it hard in the face, tell it to piss off, then finish the mission and fuck off for a month or two and remember why you put in that much effort

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Outside of taking care of other humans, the rest of them can accommodate you stepping away for a month, call it 2/3 disconnected. If they can’t then there’s a structural issue with management or team imo but obviously there are always edge cases

Don’t do burnout if you can’t manage it, like any power tool

Also there are often situations where one finds it difficult “fuck off for a month of two” - e.g. running a company, taking care of elder loved ones, taking care of kids, a team depending on you etc - having responsibilities sometimes interferes with recovering from burnout

This is fine the younger you are

The older you get that month or two bleeds into years imo

And the older you are the harder it is to miss years