You're burning out because you're afraid to slow down, but you aren't going too slow. You're not patient enough to do something well. And if you slowed down long enough to do a good job, then you would become more valuable, not less. Everyone thinks they need to move faster. But if you're always doing the most you can, then you've already learned the skill of doing more and you need to learn how to be better. And that comes from doing less with more intelligence. | Josh Terry

Burnout comes from getting less out than you put into the work. The sad person responds to this by doing less. The angry one does more in the wrong direction and breaks stuff. They're both a response to not getting a positive result from the previous work that was accomplished. So it's really whether you're frustrated in making bad decisions or depressed and slowing down. It's about whether or not you're taking actions that will get you positive results in the direction you want to take. So if y