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I tried to cure my burnout by joining a research project. Here's what I learned By Jamie Ducharme Health Correspondent I love my job. I really do. But late last year, after three years of reporting on the pandemic, I started to feel off. Coming up with story ideas felt hard. Writing them felt even harder. Sometimes, it was difficult to find the motivation to push through those creative blocks. I hated feeling that way, so I poked around for ways to cure burnout, the term for unmanaged work stress that has spiraled into exhaustion, cynicism, and frustration. I found some luxury spa retreats (tempting) and rehab centers (less) but not a ton of research-backed advice. Experts told me that’s because individuals can’t cure burnout, at least not without cooperation and substantive workplace changes from their employers. Stubborn person that I am, I set out to prove the experts wrong. I didn’t, exactly—but as I dove deep into the research on burnout (and tried much of it for myself), I did learn something useful. Individuals may not be able to cure burnout alone, but the things we take for granted, like work friendships and small moments of connection, can be far more powerful than we give them credit for. READ MORE   Share This Story

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One More Read From Elsewhere The mother of genetic science On the 70th anniversary of the decoding of DNA’s double helix, a pair of biographers attempt to clarify once and for all the story of Rosalind Franklin’s involvement in the project. Their account, published this week in Nature, paints the trailblazing scientist as a more equal partner to Watson and Crick—and involves an unpublished TIME article that may have set the record straight far earlier. Read More »

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