Andrew Dumont recalls his personal experience with burnout, and offers sound advice on how to avoid mental fatigue:
I remember coming home and curling up into a ball. I was so emotionally and physically exhausted, I couldn’t even move. My productivity was cut to nothing. The next day at the office, I found myself just staring into my computer, for hours. No movement, just staring.
I was shot.
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So, how do we avoid it?
Each person has their own limit, and I was completely oblivious to mine. I love to work, so spending countless hours in an office wasn’t crazy, it was normal. But burnout crept up on me, so I had to find a way to avoid it from happening again.
After much trial and error, I did, and here’s how I did it.