Jonquilyn Hill

Jonathan says this was a massive shift.

Just a generation earlier, Americans were feeling pretty optimistic about work.

Well, yeah.

Does that lead to any actual change in the workplace?

Like, I don't know.

Are people like, all right, let's make this better?

You write that burnout kind of fades as a buzzword after the 70s and 80s, but then it comes kind of roaring back in the late 20-teens with this one viral article.

What is that article and what happened?

The problem with holistic, all-consuming burnout is that there's no solution to it.

You can't optimize it to make it end faster.

You can't see it coming like a cold and start taking the burnout prevention version of airborne.

The best way to treat it is to first acknowledge it for what it is.

Not a passing ailment, but a chronic disease.

People are saying, I'm burnt out, I'm exhausted, I've got nothing left.

Like, it us.

So millennials are finding themselves stuck in that same old cycle of burnout.

But the newest generation of workers may have found a way out.

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Jonquan, I think of you as the queen of answering questions.