I feel like this misses out on the main way I get fatigued from work, which is exhausting how much I can do before something in my brain (the hippocampus?) demands I stop for memory consolidation. If I take a roughly 90 minute break of doing nothing directed, possible with sleep, I’ll be able to continue on after hitting this point. The felt experience is like I can’t commit anything addition to long-term memory.
Not really a source of burnout though since it happens over the course of hours rather than days and is recovered from with rest, but maybe people would mistake something like this for burnout if they just kept pushing through it all the time.
I feel like this misses out on the main way I get fatigued from work, which is exhausting how much I can do before something in my brain (the hippocampus?) demands I stop for memory consolidation. If I take a roughly 90 minute break of doing nothing directed, possible with sleep, I’ll be able to continue on after hitting this point. The felt experience is like I can’t commit anything addition to long-term memory.
Not really a source of burnout though since it happens over the course of hours rather than days and is recovered from with rest, but maybe people would mistake something like this for burnout if they just kept pushing through it all the time.