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When Passion Leads to Burnout
By Jennifer Moss — 2019
When we equate work we love with “not really working,” it propagates a belief that if we love it so much, we should do more of it—all of the time, actually. But this mentality leads to burnout, and the impact on our mental health can be profound.
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