burnout maxxing
Burnout maxxing is the darkly ironic practice of pushing yourself so far past your limits that you've essentially optimized for exhaustion — not accidentally burning out, but accelerating toward it as if it were a goal.
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Burnout maxxing is the darkly ironic practice of pushing yourself so far past your limits that you've essentially optimized for exhaustion — not accidentally burning out, but accelerating toward it as if it were a goal. The burnout maxxer stacks obligations, skips rest, treats sleep as inefficiency, and wears the resulting deterioration as proof of dedication. Online, it's often used self-deprecatingly by people who recognize they're doing exactly this but can't stop.
Three deadlines this week, a side project launch, and I signed up for a course — I am burnout maxxing and I know it.
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