Have you ever wondered if you're burnt out? We unpack it all with burnout expert Gordon this week!

You are one of the world's leading experts. Your work over the years is mind blowing. The awards that you've received, the citations.

When we read about burnout, it all sounds pretty sad and pretty pathological. Burnout is most likely to be experienced by caring, nice, reliable, dutiful people. Type A personality. Those people are more likely to get it. The rest would be difficult to tolerate. For somebody who's going through burnout, they're absolutely perfectionistic. They're working huge hours, they're setting high standards.

I was obsessed with competing, with winning, with practicing.

I believe there is a difference between burning up and being burnt out. The 247 Eat, Repeat Grind is a big factor for contemporary burnout. That's a very difficult one to handle.