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Aditya, this is making a bunch of things roll around in my head at once. Thank you! I'll come back with more but here are a few thoughts on the batteries that I'm sharing for your scrutiny.

1. The spiritual battery corroborate my experience of doing work that felt purposeless, not just in a big life-sense way but day to day where my work felt not adding up to anything meaningful. A good description of that I've read is the broken steering syndrome (https://x.com/eshear/status/1561120325584109574).

2. The emotional battery tracks with congruence. The shorter the gap between who I'm pretending to be (or projecting myself as) and who I truly am, the more emotionally at ease I am. Fake laughter takes its toll.

3. When does burnout happen? Is it emotional and spiritual exhaustion beyond the point of recovery assuming physical and mental exhaustion are easier to spot and more straightforward to fix? I'm positing this with a specific thought in mind: how come social workers who work tirelessly day in and day out for years do not get burned out but other paid professionals do?

Again, thank you for this post.

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