Discussing more about burnout

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 ## Burnout
 
-As we're doing our emotional triage we can also recognize our feelings of burnout.
+One thing that our emotional triage can help us diagnose is feeling burned out. Burnout is a collection of emotions coupled with emotional and physical exhaustion. 
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+Burnout can manifest itself in different ways. For some it may be the feeling of dread for working on a project. They feel like they are ineffectual in making any changes. For others burnout can be feelings of exhaustion. They feel as though they're on a treadmill that just will not stop and they wanted to stop a long time ago. Burnout can also manifest in feeling creatively drained, where imagining a different future is difficult and nothing that you do is interesting.
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+Burnout can be something as simple as boredom or being overworked but it can also be the sign of something more serious. Burnout can lead to physical complications if we're not careful. We can work ourselves to exhaustion and think that's just part of the price we have to pay as programmers.
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+Burnout is tricky to self-diagnose because it is a collection of seemingly unrelated emotions. Our feelings of boredom, fear, exhaustion, and anxiety can all have different root causes, but when we couple them together with unrelenting working schedules we amplify them. Left unchecked and unexamined we can lead ourselves into places where we don't want to program anymore. We can cause ourselves more undue suffering by just "powering through it" which can lead us to compound our emotional state.
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+There are some things we can do to understand and help alleviate burnout:
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+1. Realize that we're burned out, or about to burn out (discuss)
+1. Examine our emotions. (discuss)
+1. Re-negotiate our commitments (discuss)
+1. Give our drive a rest (discuss)
+1. Examine if this is truly how we want to live our lives (discuss)
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 (Discuss feelings of burnout)