Advice on how hard to work should only be taken from someone who has burned out before.

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• Working too hard is not burnout, it is tiredness; burnout needs your values to be out of alignment with the work. NFNicole Forsgren22 Mar 2026
• Burnout is not working too much; what ground him down at his company was people: co-founder conflict and high-stress customers. PSPeter Steinberger12 Feb 2026
• Burnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest. CMCharity Majors23 Sept 2022
• Working harder cannot beat working on a better thing, so out-thinking someone should count as part of out-working them. JCJames Clear1 Jan 2026
• Most people who think they are overtrained are probably only non-functionally overreached and need just a short back-off. AGAndy Galpin15 Feb 2023

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