“Burnout describes the emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. It manifests as restlessness, procrastination, apathy, and low-level persistent unhappiness.” One of the paradoxes that arises from David Zahl’s description of the contemporary anthropology that gives rise to perfectionism and its fruit – burnout, anxiety, depression – is that the Church’s anthropology which …
I’ve got to start reading David Zahl’s Low Anthropology. The more grounded our view of human nature, the more empathetic and compassionate we can be toward others (and ourselves).
A post by David Zahl dealing with the implications of a social science report that finds that tries to engage with optimistic teens turning into disillusioned 30 somethings. From the report itself: The researchers can only speculate about why getting older is less fun than ever, but it seems the downturn in happiness among today’s …
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