For more than four decades in high-pressure technology, entrepreneurship, and executive leadership, I carried the weight that many leaders quietly endure. Burnout rarely arrives overnight; it accumulates slowly as work becomes inextricably bound to personal identity.
Recognizing that exhaustion is not a failure of character is the first step toward reinvention. Recovery asks what we choose to do with the lessons of burnout, and how we find our way home to what matters most.