Burn-out creeps up on you over a period of time, or at least that’s my experience. It’s not like one day you’re happy and healthy in your job and the next you’re burnt out.  Burn-out was triggered for me over about a six months period after a particularly intense period of work at Google. Pressure from above to deliver results in difficult circumstances intensified, there was a lack of resources so I was doing the job of three people, and I was receiving hardly any feedback....

Here's a wonderful blogpost from our first ever podcast guest, Courtney Hohne, whose had an illustrious career at Google and is now Storyteller for Moonshots at X; The Moonshot Factory (Google's elite innovation hub).