Anthony Goldner explains how burnout stems from a broken stress-response system called the HPA axis. He compares it to a law-enforcement dispatch center that coordinates your body's reaction to stress, making the neuroscience less intimidating and more concrete.
Burnout is associated with a deregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, HPA. Basically what that means is, again, when we first read that, we're like, oh, that's a lot of scientific words, right? You're like, dumb it down for me. Yeah. Basically what that is, is it's your stress response command center. For me, the way I thought about it is it's our dispatch with law enforcement. They're the ones that handle everything.
