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1 author picked The Burnout Society as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It comes at the question and experience of burnout from a philosophical perspective - so it doesn't just offer tips and superficial tactics to deal with burnout, it reveals and uncovers the human outlooks and social narratives that lead us to and make us vulnerable to burnout.

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