“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum
The difference between (most) movies and life is that there is no clear structure to life. In movies you have a set-up, a confrontation, and a resolution (movies like Memento are excluding from this). We may be able to tell our already lived experience through the same lense with some practice. However, life remains more complex than (most) movies. That should not stop us from wanting to understand how our context, bodies, and minds shape our experience.
Since you came here for burnout…
Let’s start with context because that one seems to be the easiest to assess. When we think about how someone develops burnout, our mind can conjure up images of consistently working over-time with no recognition for your work, an unsupportive supervisor, a difficult relationship with co-workers. [MORE; ask Femke]
When it comes to our bodies and mind…
[symptoms of stress often get ignored …]
We as people do not exist in isolation. For those of you not familiar with the concept of “seven degrees of separation”: It suggests that any two people are connected through a chain of other people with no more than 6 intermediaries (7 total connections). Your favourite musician or sportsperson? You’ve already met them through association.
