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Burnout: A Love Story is a sharp, funny nonfiction exploration of how modern culture teaches people to confuse exhaustion with ambition, usefulness with worth, and constant availability with commitment. The book frames burnout as a toxic romance that begins attractively-with praise, productivity, and the thrill of being needed-before revealing its red flags: perfectionism, overcommitment, fake urgency, invisible emotional labor, and the belief that rest must be earned. Through satire, it exposes the absurdity of workplaces and lifestyles that reward self-neglect while offering meditation apps, scented candles, and wellness webinars instead of meaningful support.

Across fifteen chapters, the book examines how burnout shapes work, relationships, identity, health, and time. It explores the Sunday Scaries, overloaded calendars, the fantasy of quitting everything, the body's eventual rebellion, and the discomfort many people feel when they are no longer producing. It also challenges purely individual solutions, emphasizing that burnout is often connected to larger issues such as understaffing, unequal caregiving, financial pressure, weak leadership, and cultures that treat human beings like endlessly renewable resources.

Ultimately, the book argues that recovery is not a dramatic transformation or a perfect state of balance. It is a series of practical renegotiations: setting boundaries, reducing false urgency, sharing responsibility, accepting limits, resting before collapse, and separating self-worth from output. With humor and honesty, Burnout: A Love Story encourages readers to break up with overwork without abandoning ambition-and to build a life where success no longer requires sacrificing the person achieving it.

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• Plný název: Burnout
• Podnázev: A Love Story: How We Fell for Productivity, Ignored Every Red Flag, and Finally Learned to Stop Sleeping with Our Laptops
• Autor: Tony Hicks
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 182
• EAN: 9798189474743
• ID: 53370663
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 199 g
• Rozměry: 216 × 140 × 12 mm
• Datum vydání: 27. July 2026

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