A short conversation (YouTube video) discussing early signs of low energy and burnout. Speakers describe emotional symptoms—frustration, anger, reactivity, getting emotionally caught up in trivial matters—and contrast these with times of high energy when one feels in control and like 'chief architect' of the day.
What does low energy look or feel like? What are some of the symptoms they might be experiencing right now that you would say, hey, you've got an energy problem.
If you feel low on energy, you typically feel frustrated, angry, quite reactive, and you will feel like even the simplest of things that shouldn't frustrate you do. And you can get very quickly, emotionally caught up in things that are very trivial. And these are the symptoms of feeling low on energy, feeling some early symptoms of burnout, and just feeling exhausted. But when you look at the flip side of it, and again, you can relate to these moments as well, because there would have been moments in your life where you felt you had all the energy to do anything you wanted. So if you think about those moments where you had all the energy that you needed to do stuff, you feel like you are the chief architect of your day.
