This Week - Aug 12, 2016

How could someone with such an astute understanding of the world apparently want so little to do with it?

— Frank Ocean, Harper Lee, and the Reclusive Artist (Eve L. Ewing for The Atlantic)

But such solutions will seem unrealistic to some sufferers both practically and psychologically. Practically in the sense that many of us are employed in sectors that demand punishing hours and unstinting commitment; psychologically in the sense that reducing working hours, and so taking oneself out of the highest levels of the game, is likely to induce more rather than less anxiety in someone driven relentlessly to achieve more.

— The way out of burnout (Josh Cohen for 1843 Magazine)

The exhaustion experienced in burnout combines an intense yearning for this state of completion with the tormenting sense that it cannot be attained, that there is always some demand or anxiety or distraction which can’t be silenced.

— Minds turned to ash (Josh Cohen for 1843 Magazine)