Burnout leads you to achieve less

Just because you’re facing creative burnout doesn’t mean your work expectations change.

As Schaufeli continues:

“Over time, employees experiencing burnout lose the capacity to provide the intense contributions that make an impact. If they continue working, the result is more like smouldering–uneventful and inconsequential–than burning. From their own perspective or that of others, they accomplish less."

This is especially disastrous for people whose jobs are focused on creativity and who aren’t able to draw a line between work and “everything else.”