Coming to you with a different format - one rainy Thursday morning, I allowed my wappy brain to wander and verbalised some recent lessons learned.Recently I crashed into burnout, which is part two of a cycle I've spun through for as long as I can remember. But this time, things were different: I watched myself as I went through the high energy and relentless pushing, and for the first time I saw what was at play. Spoiler alert: burnout isn't just an inescapable feature of the way my brain is wired. There's more to it than that, and there are steps I can now take to minimise it.Links mentioned in episode:Unmasking autism by Dr Devon Price PhD: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/688819/unmasking-autism-by-devon-price-phd/Send feedback and questions to my Instagram: instagram.com/haverhester/For nobody but me, a couple of language corrections: *out on the other side not out of the other side *eyes open wide not widely --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/porridgeforbrains/message