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When startup teams experience collective burnout but won't address it

Our startup team went through a really intense accelerator program together and now we're all burned out but nobody wants to admit it because we're afraid the others will think we're not committed enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Group identity can become a prison when admitting struggle feels like betraying the shared mission.

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