Are You Burned Out or Just Bored? Tell the difference before you make the wrong move

You rested. It didn't help. That's your first real clue.

Burnout and boredom feel identical from the inside. Same heaviness, same dread, same drop on Sunday night. So you guess. You call it burnout and pull back, and it gets worse. Or you call it boredom and pile more on, and that gets worse too. The fix for one feeds the other.

Questions to tell them apart before you make the move you can't take back. No advice. No tips. No verdict at the end. Just an honest read on which one you're actually in.

You're not the only one who's guessed wrong on this. Most people do, at least once. It's an expensive guess.

Put your email in. The questions are right behind it.

So which one are you actually in. You don't know yet. That's the point.

When you've answered the one that stopped you, here's where it goes next:

• If it's burnout, and you want to see how you got here: Burned Out
• If it's boredom, and you want what's next: What Do You Actually Want?
• For the year-long version of this work: Real Growth (journal)