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You’re Not Burning Out.
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- People don't burn out when they're playing video games.
- I don't think it's anything to do with the amount of work that you're doing.
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Abschnitt 1 People don't burn out when they're playing video games.
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0:00People don't burn out when they're playing video games. Burnout just means that the reward for the work [music] that you're doing, you have habituated to that reward. So, you've gotten used to it, so it no longer really rewards you anymore. Or, the cadence of that reward, which is meaningful, has continued to extend in terms of how frequently you get rewarded, which are both two different ways of basically saying the same thing, which is just you're not getting out of it what you wanted to get out of it. I think that is when people could get burned out. I don't think it's anything to do with the amount of work that you're doing.