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Physical Burnout

  • In athletics, burnout shows up as injury.
  • The body forces a stop when signals are ignored
  • Creative burnout works the same way
Athletic injury as metaphor for burnout
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What We Mean by Rest

  • Rest removes or reduces stressors
  • It changes the conditions creating the load
  • Rest is preventative
  • Sadly, sometimes rest is not an option
Rest
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  • Pulled hamstrings and stress fractures
  • We can sustain creative injuries.
  • Physical injuries are much easier to diagnose.
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