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Burnout The High Cost of High Achievement

Herbert J. Freudenberger

Herbert Freudenberger's Burnout book is one of the best books I have ever read. It is only about 210 pages long but answers all the questions we have about the way we feel about life and the "what,why and how". It is the best self-help book EVER!! It allows you to laugh at yourself and at your cowor...

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It was discussed in the context of burnout, particularly among dedicated and committed individuals, and was written in the 1980s.

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He just posed the question who is prone to burnout and then has this very unambiguous answer the dedicated and the committed.

— Episode: 166. Are You Suffering From Burnout?

Episode: 166. Are You Suffering From Burnout?

It was discussed in the context of burnout, particularly among dedicated and committed individuals, and was written in the 1980s.

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He just posed the question who is prone to burnout and then has this very unambiguous answer the dedicated and the committed.

There was this psychologist in New York in the early 1970s named Herbert Friedenberger and he worked all of these shifts 10 hours a day at a private practice then he would go down to a free clinic where he would work and you know eventually broke down because he was working so much and in the 1980s he wrote a book called Burnout the high cost of achievement and had also written this paper titled staff burnout and it was so interesting.

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