Jonathan Malesic

In the video, Gabriel and Bush are just like in this embrace for six straight minutes with this like eclipsing sun behind them.

It's extremely dramatic.

I just needed to hear that over and over and over again.

I'm fundamentally a nerd.

So I solve problems in my life very often with research.

And somewhere along the line, I had encountered this term, burnout.

I wasn't just a failure.

I wasn't just bad at my job.

I wasn't just tired.

Something happened that researchers identify as a real phenomenon.

As I read more and more articles about burnout,

A name came up over and over again, and it was Christina Maslach, who is a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

She's the sort of godmother of burnout research.

You know, I read many of her early articles.

I've read one of her books called Burnout, The Cost of Caring.

And I just couldn't get enough.

One thing was that I took the Maslach Burnout Inventory, which is the standard research instrument for measuring and classifying burnout.

It's a 22-question survey, asks, you know, how often do these following kind of bad experiences apply to you?

Working with people all day long requires a great deal of effort.

I have the impression that my team slash colleagues make me responsible for some of their problems.