Most burnout advice is backwards.

People tell you to "set boundaries" and "practice self-care." Cool. But if you don't understand why you're burning out, bubble baths won't save you.

Here's the equation I keep coming back to:

Burnout = High Demand + Low Control + Low Reward

It's from Karasek's Demand-Control model, backed by decades of research. The insight is that stress alone doesn't burn you out — it's stress without autonomy or recognition that does it.

So the real fix isn't less work. It's:

• More control over how and when you work

• More visible reward — not just money, but acknowledgment that your effort matters

• Selective demand reduction — cutting the tasks that drain you without advancing anything

I've been deep in this research for years, and I started Mindframe to break it down weekly for people who actually want to understand their own brain.

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