Ashish Kothari reframes burnout not as failure but as a signal to reassess your strategies, relationships, and environment. He draws on pandemic lessons about invisible forces like viruses and emotions, arguing that burnout asks you to pay attention to your inner values and ways of being.
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So when someone says to me, am I a failure? Is this my fault? What I say is, it's a wake up call in your life for you to look at what strategies, people, environment, job that you may have outgrown, that you've learned the lessons you came here to learn, and you might be outgrowing them now. What I say is, as a collective world, the gift that the pandemic gave us is it taught us that invisible things matter, things that may not be able to be measured, like a virus that can cross continents, and emotions, like, within us, matter. And so I think some of the lessons we learned as what I call it, as a doctor, through our global heart attack was it's time to pay attention within us and around us, become mindful of who we are, what we value and how we're working and living and being in the world.