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When your team enables each other's burnout in pursuit of shared goals

Our startup team has been together for two years and we're all burning out but nobody wants to be the one to suggest slowing down because we're so close to our next funding round. We keep pushing each other toward exhaustion and calling it dedication.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has created a collective pattern where individual wellbeing becomes subordinate to shared ambition, and no one knows how to break the cycle.

Worth thinking about

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