The Complexity Trap: Why High Performers Burn Out and How to Break the Cycle

By Szilvia Kocsy · Chief of You®

Burnout in high performers is rarely a workload problem. It is a complexity-absorption problem. The same instincts that make someone valuable — taking on hard things, holding context for everyone else, smoothing over chaos — are exactly what overload them.

Breaking the cycle means treating complexity as a system to manage, not a personality test to pass.

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