Burnout
noun
The state of having no energy or enthusiasm because of overworking or too much stress.
The doctor diagnosed her condition as burnout and suggested she take a vacation.
Often appears as...
- experience burnout
- suffer burnout
noun
In technology, the failure of an electrical device or component due to overheating.
Laptop burnout is common if you use your device continuously without proper ventilation.
Often appears as...
- prevent device burnout
- experiencing burnout
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Technical
noun
In motorsport, spinning the wheels of a vehicle while keeping it stationary to heat and clean the tires.
He did a burnout in his car before the race to warm up the tires.
Often appears as...
- vehicle burnout
- do a burnout
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Disapproving
Technical
noun
The state of having no energy or enthusiasm because of overworking or too much stress.
The doctor diagnosed her condition as burnout and suggested she take a vacation.
Often appears as...
- experience burnout
- suffer burnout
noun
In technology, the failure of an electrical device or component due to overheating.
Laptop burnout is common if you use your device continuously without proper ventilation.
Often appears as...
- prevent device burnout
- experiencing burnout
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In motorsport, spinning the wheels of a vehicle while keeping it stationary to heat and clean the tires.
He did a burnout in his car before the race to warm up the tires.
Often appears as...
- vehicle burnout
- do a burnout
Usage tips
Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Avoid Overuse
Use 'burnout' to express severe exhaustion, not for minor tiredness.
After working double shifts for weeks, I'm facing burnout.
Pro Tip 2/3Work-Related Stress
'Burnout' is often linked to work and can include emotional drain.
She left her teaching job due to burnout.
Pro Tip 3/3Recovery Context
When discussing overcoming 'burnout', suggest positive actions.
Taking up a hobby helped him recover from burnout.
Pro Tip 1/3Avoid Overuse
Use 'burnout' to express severe exhaustion, not for minor tiredness.
After working double shifts for weeks, I'm facing burnout.
Pro Tip 2/3Work-Related Stress
'Burnout' is often linked to work and can include emotional drain.
She left her teaching job due to burnout.
Pro Tip 3/3Recovery Context
When discussing overcoming 'burnout', suggest positive actions.
Taking up a hobby helped him recover from burnout.
Pro Tip 1/3Avoid Overuse
Use 'burnout' to express severe exhaustion, not for minor tiredness.
After working double shifts for weeks, I'm facing burnout.
Pro Tip 2/3Work-Related Stress
'Burnout' is often linked to work and can include emotional drain.
She left her teaching job due to burnout.
Pro Tip 3/3Recovery Context
When discussing overcoming 'burnout', suggest positive actions.
Taking up a hobby helped him recover from burnout.
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Praising slowness - Carl...
sometimes it takes a wake-up call doesn't it to to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lie instead of actually living them that we're living the fast life instead of the good life and I think for many people that wake-up call takes the form of an illness you know a burnout or eventually the body says I can't take it
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Are you a giver or a...
who can do them no good. And let's face it, you all know you can learn a lot about character by watching how someone treats their restaurant server or their Uber driver. So if we do all this well, if we can weed takers out of organizations, if we can make it safe to ask for help, if we can protect givers from burnout
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Carl Honore: In praise...
a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives, instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life, instead of the good life. And I think for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. You know, a burnout, or eventually the body says,
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3 steps to stop remote...
to help you enforce good boundaries. Even if your desk is in your kitchen, make it feel like a workplace. For space, build in some alone time every day. And this includes time away from your kids. It's really key to avoiding burnout. Finally, if you're a manager,
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The real reason you...
Next time on WorkLife. Conrey This feeling of being trapped in this system where you're on, like, a hamster wheel. You know, you're kind of, like, doing a lot, but is it really changing anything? Job burnout seems to be everywhere.
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Matthieu Ricard: How to...
this person is joyful, this person suffers. But empathy alone is not sufficient. If you keep on being confronted with suffering, you might have empathic distress, burnout, so you need the greater sphere of loving-kindness.
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Yves Morieux: As work...
individual efforts for the lack of cooperation. Stress, burnout, they are overwhelmed, accidents. No wonder they disengage. How do the hard and the soft try to foster cooperation? The In banks, when there is a problem
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Mutant Bikes PIPE Mad...
when you want to do a burnout tons of fun coming through coming through yeah yeah you know you can ride a tricycle we can you ride one of my more delightful contraptions Johnny tried to build a penny-farthing that
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Emily Nagoski and Amelia...
So our layperson's definition of burnout is, as you said, that feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted by everything you have to do, while still worrying that you're not doing enough. Mm hmm.
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3 rules for better...
which is often caused by the stress and burnout of our always-on culture. Despite knowing better, I, too, have found myself focusing on “urgent work distractions” over important life moments.
Video examples
Praising slowness - Carl...
sometimes it takes a wake-up call doesn't it to to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lie instead of actually living them that we're living the fast life instead of the good life and I think for many people that wake-up call takes the form of an illness you know a burnout or eventually the body says I can't take it
Video examples
Are you a giver or a...
who can do them no good. And let's face it, you all know you can learn a lot about character by watching how someone treats their restaurant server or their Uber driver. So if we do all this well, if we can weed takers out of organizations, if we can make it safe to ask for help, if we can protect givers from burnout
Video examples
Carl Honore: In praise...
a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives, instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life, instead of the good life. And I think for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. You know, a burnout, or eventually the body says,
Video examples
3 steps to stop remote...
to help you enforce good boundaries. Even if your desk is in your kitchen, make it feel like a workplace. For space, build in some alone time every day. And this includes time away from your kids. It's really key to avoiding burnout. Finally, if you're a manager,
Video examples
The real reason you...
Next time on WorkLife. Conrey This feeling of being trapped in this system where you're on, like, a hamster wheel. You know, you're kind of, like, doing a lot, but is it really changing anything? Job burnout seems to be everywhere.
Video examples
Matthieu Ricard: How to...
this person is joyful, this person suffers. But empathy alone is not sufficient. If you keep on being confronted with suffering, you might have empathic distress, burnout, so you need the greater sphere of loving-kindness.
Video examples
Yves Morieux: As work...
individual efforts for the lack of cooperation. Stress, burnout, they are overwhelmed, accidents. No wonder they disengage. How do the hard and the soft try to foster cooperation? The In banks, when there is a problem
Video examples
Mutant Bikes PIPE Mad...
when you want to do a burnout tons of fun coming through coming through yeah yeah you know you can ride a tricycle we can you ride one of my more delightful contraptions Johnny tried to build a penny-farthing that
Video examples
Emily Nagoski and Amelia...
So our layperson's definition of burnout is, as you said, that feeling of being overwhelmed and exhausted by everything you have to do, while still worrying that you're not doing enough. Mm hmm.
Video examples
3 rules for better...
which is often caused by the stress and burnout of our always-on culture. Despite knowing better, I, too, have found myself focusing on “urgent work distractions” over important life moments.
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Quote examples
Jason Fried
American Businessman
That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
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Darryl Pinckney
American Novelist
The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.
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Diana Nyad
American Author
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.
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Grant Morrison
Scottish Writer
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
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Arianna Huffington
American Journalist
Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.
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Dave Obey
American Politician
We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.
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Elena Delle Donne
American Athlete
That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.
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Patrick Pichette
Canadian Businessman
It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
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Tony Evans
Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.
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Canelo Alvarez
Mexican Athlete
I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
Quote examples
Jason Fried
American Businessman
That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
Quote examples
Darryl Pinckney
American Novelist
The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.
Quote examples
Diana Nyad
American Author
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.
Quote examples
Grant Morrison
Scottish Writer
Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.
Quote examples
Arianna Huffington
American Journalist
Women need to lead the way to change our culture of burnout - both for their sake and also for the sake of successful men who desperately need a new model of success. And the still-very-macho world of STEM is a great place to start.
Quote examples
Dave Obey
American Politician
We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.
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Elena Delle Donne
American Athlete
That's the thing: You don't understand burnout unless you've been burned out. And it's something you can't even explain. It's just doing something you have absolutely no passion for.
Quote examples
Patrick Pichette
Canadian Businessman
It's important that you don't lie to yourself. If you lie to yourself, you end up with burnout.
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Tony Evans
Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.
Quote examples
Canelo Alvarez
Mexican Athlete
I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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