Jan Jachimowicz

They're very long-term things that might take days, weeks, or even months and years to accomplish.

And for that, I think the question that we need to ask ourselves is not, how can I give my all today?

But what can I do today to make sure that I'm still as passionate tomorrow and the next day and the next day?

We find in one of our papers that on any given day, the more passionate people are, the longer they work, that's wonderful.

But on the next day, they are more emotionally exhausted and that makes it harder for them to actually muster that passion again because we require those emotional resources to feel and experience that passion.

day in day out.

So perhaps a little counter-intuitively, on our most passionate days we should be most careful in how much of ourselves we give and perhaps even take a step back.

Yeah, that's a great question.

So one component of burnout is a lack of self-efficacy.

A lack of self-efficacy means I don't really feel like what I'm doing today makes a difference anymore.

I don't think I have the skills necessary to do that.

I don't feel like I have any sense of control over what I'm doing.

And so it can feel really defeating when what I'm working on doesn't really seem like it's moving the needle anymore.

The prescription there is not really taking any time off, but trying to figure out, can I work on other things where I could make a difference?

Or do I need to figure out how I can develop a better skill set that would actually allow me to make a difference?

That's one of the components of burnout.

The second component of burnout is what I think people often think about when they think about burnout, which is emotional exhaustion.

that is when people feel like their emotional tank is empty.

They don't really have a lot in them anymore to feel a lot of emotions anymore.

And that can be both positive and negative affect.