Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

What If Burnout Isn’t About Workload?

1 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Burnout might signal misalignment between your work and your deeper sense of purpose, not just too much work. Over-identification with a role, pride that keeps you stuck, and feeling trapped with no alternatives all feed it. Exhaustion itself prevents the reflection needed to escape.

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as someone saying that I want to give up in terms of my work, in terms of my life. So do you think these words are almost parallel, like burnout and dissonance?
It's a really interesting question. I want to say yes and no, because I think you're absolutely spot on. I think burnout is often a sign that somebody is off track for them, right? They're pushing and forcing themselves or suffering in a situation that's no longer resonant, that's no longer purposeful. And it's very difficult for ourselves to extract ourselves from these situations, right? I've been there too. And there could be any number of reasons. It could be pride in what we do, over-identification with a role or a job, or a lack of sense of possibility. What else could I do? What else is out there? Or it's simply a lack of time and energy to even focus on the question.