Most people treat burnout like a battery issue. Sleep more. Take a week off. Come back and grind.

That doesn't work if the way you think is what drained you.

The pattern I keep seeing: you overreach, you prove yourself, you disappear, you hate yourself for disappearing, you overreach again. Rest doesn't break that loop. A different way of thinking does.

If you're rebuilding confidence after that cycle, start here: stop treating recovery as a performance. One honest day beats a heroic week you can't repeat.