Let’s start with something most leaders rarely say out loud: People don’t walk away from jobs because of hours, deadlines, or performance targets.They walk away because the environment slowly trains them to hide who they really are. It’s not burnout from tasks, it’s burnout from pretending . Think of the thousand tiny ways people shrink themselves at work: The raised hand that goes down. The email rewritten over and over so it can’t be misread. The idea saved for “a better mo

There’s a kind of fatigue that comes with being in charge, one that never shows up on your schedule or in your KPIs. It’s the heaviness that lingers after you shut down your laptop late at night, the thoughts that pull you awake before sunrise, the steady hum of responsibility that refuses to quiet. If you’re a founder, an executive, or someone steering the ship, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Yet it’s something we rarely acknowledge out loud, however the emotional

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