Burnout doesn't look like collapse. It looks like normal.

It doesn't arrive with a warning.

It's the extra hour on Tuesday that becomes the extra hour every day.

It's the working vacation that becomes every vacation.

It's the Sunday-night anxiety that was once occasional and is now just... the weather.

Nobody realizes they're burned out until they already are.

Every single person I've worked with had a story about why their pace was necessary.

Every one of them was wrong.

Burnout doesn't feel like collapse.

It feels like normal.

That's why you don't see it coming.