Timeline for What can I do to recover from a short term burnout?
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| Feb 5, 2013 at 8:26 | vote | accept | Stressed | ||
| Feb 3, 2013 at 0:20 | answer | added | cbeleites | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 2:03 | comment | added | Alexander | Don't "fight with it" as suggested above. This only delays the effect. Let it go instead. Set aside two days where you're not allowed to think even one tiresome thought. Do something completely different. See if you can manage to do "nothing", for a short while. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 19:22 | comment | added | aeismail | Actually, there's a lot of research that suggests that extended workweeks are only sustainable for a short period of time—a few weeks at most. Beyond that, burnout sets in, and can require a few weeks of rest to "make up" for the intense work done during the "rush" period. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 19:19 | history | edited | aeismail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 17:42 | comment | added | Kaz | Bipolar disorder? You never know ... | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 16:52 | answer | added | Sylvain Peyronnet | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 16:10 | history | edited | Piotr Migdal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 16:05 | answer | added | Daniel Gottesman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 13:35 | history | notice added | eykanal | Needs detailed answers | |
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 12:28 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov | Not specifically academia-burnout-related. As my Zen teacher says: "if you're so burnt out you feel you can't accomplish anything, start with clapping hands". Do anything you can succeed in, starting from the absolute basics, until gradually you recover your momentum and get back to serious things. Another advise, to prevent burnout, next time keep the excitement / expectations in check. High expectations mess with your success thresholds and rob you of the sense of accomplishment. Excitement wastes your serotonin unnecessarily, while you need it for creative work. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 12:20 | comment | added | user5872 | You need to find something apart from books and papers that keeps your mind busy and away of recurrent thoughts. I would not recommend reading other books. It has to be something different of the environment your burnout is caused by. For me, gym and movies most part of the times works really well. This activities really make me forget about problems of my daily life. Try to find what's yours and schedule a time for them. | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 10:51 | comment | added | Piotr Migdal | If it is days or weeks (not years), I don't know if "burnout" is the right term. It's just a temporal loss of motivation or energy, or tiredness. (Anyway, the quicker you fight with it, the better for you.) | |
| Feb 1, 2013 at 10:47 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/297295105616932864 | ||
| Feb 1, 2013 at 9:28 | answer | added | posdef | timeline score: 12 | |
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 8:25 | answer | added | Dave Clarke | timeline score: 56 | |
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| Feb 1, 2013 at 7:57 | history | asked | Stressed | CC BY-SA 3.0 |