Below, Nabeela Elsayed shares five key insights from her new book, Breaking Burnout: How High Achievers Break the Success Myths Driving Exhaustion, Overwork, and Burnout .

Nabeela is a recovering workaholic and former C-suite executive. She began her career as a barista making $6.50 an hour and spent the next 20-plus years climbing the corporate ladder until she ran operations and people at companies including Walmart Canada and IKEA.

What’s the Big Idea?

Burnout isn’t a stamina problem. It isn’t a boundaries problem. It’s what happens when the definition of success you were handed was never survivable in the first place. Getting off the burnout loop isn’t a dramatic leap. It’s a series of small choices toward a life that no longer costs you yourself.

Listen to the audio version of this Book Bite—read by Nabeela herself—in the Next Big Idea App , or buy the book .

1. Fix your relationship with work, not just your job.

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