Adam Markel uses a short anecdote about a dog owner who proactively cares for her dogs (resting them every four hours, feeding before hunger, giving water before thirst) to illustrate the idea that preventing exhaustion is easier than recovering from it. He connects this to human behavior by prompting the audience to recognize people who run themselves to burnout and asking for signs of burnout (example: apathy).
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I just thought this picture so cool, because check out the booties, right? I mean, if you're a dog lover, that's just the sweetest thing. So she knows something about her dogs that they don't know about themselves. It's in their DNA. It's how they're baked. So what does she do about it? She rests them every four hours, even though they sometimes won't even lie down on the snow. She feeds them before they're hungry or they know they're hungry. She gives them water before they know they're thirsty because she understands that it is far easier to prevent their exhaustion in the first place than to recover from it later. Some of you in this room probably know someone who just runs and runs and runs and runs and runs until they cannot run any longer. Does anybody know somebody like that? Raise your hand if you know somebody like that. Are they sitting in your seat? What are the signs of burnout, folks? What does it look like? Call it out. What was that, apathy? Yeah.