The Recovery Gap: Your Bounce Back Is the Best Predictor of Burnout
Psychology Today | 27.01.2026 22:52
We have been taught to think of burnout as a wall we eventually hit. We imagine a sudden moment where the engine stops and the lights go out. In high-stakes environments like venture-backed startups, burnout is actually a time-lag. It is a slow stretching of the interval between an event and a response. By the time a leader admits they are exhausted, the business has usually been absorbing the cost of that delay for several months.
