am I the last to read these?

I’ve seen this article linked all over recently, and finally read through it:

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen

What’s worse, the feeling of accomplishment that follows an exhausting task — passing the final! Finishing the massive work project! — never comes. “The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced.”

And then this one was an interesting perspective on the same basic issue, though it’s never specifically described as burnout:

I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life
by Heather Havrilesky

You can build a new kind of existence, one that feels small and flawed and honest, but each day you accumulate a kind of treasure that doesn’t disappear. Because instead of running away from the truth, you welcome it in. You don’t treat what you have as pointless. You work with what you have.

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