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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski

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Author
Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
Reading time
4 hours

Contents

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. Who We Are and Why We Wrote Burnout
  3. IT’S THE EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION
  4. HUMAN GIVER SYNDROME
  5. How the Book Is Organized
  6. A CAVEAT OR TWO ABOUT SCIENCE
  7. THE OWL AND THE CHEESE
  8. PART I
  9. What You Take with You
  10. COMPLETE THE CYCLE
  11. “Stress”
  12. Just Because You’ve Dealt with the Stressor Doesn’t Mean You’ve Dealt with the Stress Itself
  13. Why We Get Stuck
  14. Freeze
  15. “THE FEELS”
  16. The Most Efficient Way to Complete the Cycle
  17. Other Ways to Complete the Cycle
  18. How Do You Know You’ve Completed the Cycle?
  19. The Practical Advice
  20. Signs You Need to Deal with the Stress, Even If It Means Ignoring the Stressor
  21. tl;dr:
  22. #PERSIST
  23. Allow Us to Introduce…the Monitor
  24. Dealing with Stressors You Can Control: Planful Problem-Solving
  25. Dealing with Stressors You Can’t Control: Positive Reappraisal
  26. Change the Expectancy: Redefine Winning
  27. Change the Expectancy: Redefine Failing
  28. HOW NOT TO MANAGE YOUR MONITOR
  29. When to Give Up
  30. DECISION GRID
  31. #ShePersisted
  32. tl;dr:
  33. REDEFINE WINNING
  34. MEANING
  35. What Is It, Exactly?
  36. You Make It
  37. What’s Your Something Larger?
  38. Human Giver Syndrome
  39. Make Meaning, Heal Human Giver Syndrome
  40. Making Meaning When Terrible Things Happen
  41. ORIGIN STORY
  42. Your Something Larger Is Within You
  43. tl;dr:
  44. PART II
  45. The Real Enemy
  46. THE GAME IS RIGGED
  47. The Patriarchy. (Ugh.)
  48. Gaslighting
  49. Patriarchy Blindness #1: Human Giver Syndrome
  50. Patriarchy Blindness #2: Headwinds/Tailwinds Asymmetry
  51. The “Tall Tree” Fairness Test
  52. COMPASSION FATIGUE
  53. 1. Complete the Cycle: Feels About the Patriarchy
  54. 2. Unlearning Helplessness: Do a Thing
  55. 3. Smash
  56. SMASHIN’-SOME-PATRIARCHY WORKSHEET
  57. tl;dr:
  58. THE BIKINI INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
  59. The Bikini Industrial Complex
  60. Stigma Is the Health Hazard

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