Prior to reading this book I believed that burnout was 100% my responsibility. While we each need to take onus over our lives, highlights the systematic issues at play that contribute to societal burnout. This book gives an overview on how work has gotten so exhausting over the years and why the workers need to take their collective power back from the stakeholders where they work.

"We convince workers that poor conditions are normal; that rebelling against them is a symptom of generational entitlement; that free-market capitalism is what makes America great and this is free market capitalism in action. It turns legitimate grievance, backed by a union or not, into  “ungratefulness” And it standardizes over work and surveillance and stress and instability – the very building blocks of burnout.”

1. At what age did you start feeling busy?

2. What expectations were placed on your education?

3. How were you raised to look at your career?

4. What was your definition of burnout before and after reading this book?

5. How has burnout impacted your time away from work?

6. What boundaries do you place between your career and your identity? 

7. Systemically, how have systems been contributing to your burnout? 

8. How do you take care of yourself during burnout?

9. What expectations should you have on your employer about negating your burnout?

10. If you can implement one change at your job to help with work/life harmony, what would it be?