Nobody talks about why some of the most competent people at work are also the most exhausted by ordinary weekends, and it isn’t overwork, it’s that competence quietly trained them to be uncomfortable in any environment that doesn’t ask something of them
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The standard story about competent professionals who collapse into weekends is that they are burned out, running on empty, in desperate need of rest. That story is mostly wrong. The exhaustion is real, but it does not come from working too hard. It comes from the strange, quiet discomfort of suddenly being in a space that asks nothing back.
Rest is not the opposite of work for these people. It is a different, harder task they were never trained to do.
The competence trap nobody names
Competence
Rest is not the opposite of work for these people. It is a different, harder task they were never trained to do.
The competence trap nobody names
Competence
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