What's My Burnout Type?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  It's Sunday evening. What's going through your head?

  • A.
    I need to get ahead of the week.
  • B.
    I'm already thinking about who needs me tomorrow.
  • C.
    I miss actually caring about my work.
  • D.
    I'm replaying everything I didn't do perfectly.
  • E.
    I scrolled for hours and feel worse for it.
  • F.
    I have ideas I don't know what to do with.
• 2.
  How would your closest friend describe you right now?

  • A.
    Driven but running on empty.
  • B.
    Always there for everyone but themselves.
  • C.
    Lost and just going through the motions.
  • D.
    My own worst critic.
  • E.
    Completely overwhelmed by the world.
  • F.
    Full of potential going nowhere.
• 3.
  What does rest look like for you?

  • A.
    Feeling guilty for not being productive.
  • B.
    Whatever's left after everyone else is taken care of.
  • C.
    Something that never actually restores me.
  • D.
    A plan I end up critiquing afterward.
  • E.
    Trying to unwind but getting pulled back into the noise.
  • F.
    Daydreaming about what could be.
• 4.
  How's your energy right now?

  • A.
    Running on adrenaline and pretending that's fine.
  • B.
    Depleted from giving everything to everyone else.
  • C.
    Directionless. I have it but don't know where to put it.
  • D.
    Spent on worrying instead of actually doing.
  • E.
    Drained by a world I can't control.
  • F.
    Bursts of inspiration followed by nothing.
• 5.
  What does your ideal life look like?

  • A.
    This one, but with room to breathe.
  • B.
    One where I actually come first for once.
  • C.
    Something that feels meaningful again.
  • D.
    This one, just done right this time.
  • E.
    Quieter. So much quieter.
  • F.
    The life I keep saying I'll start someday.
• 6.
  What would feeling better actually mean?

  • A.
    Permission to finally stop pushing.
  • B.
    Having someone take care of me for once.
  • C.
    Remembering why I started all of this.
  • D.
    Letting good enough actually be enough.
  • E.
    Real silence with no noise or notifications.
  • F.
    Finally taking the leap I keep avoiding.
• 7.
  What does a hard day actually look like for you?

  • A.
    Pushing through it and adding more to my list.
  • B.
    Absorbing everyone else's stress on top of my own.
  • C.
    Going through the motions and feeling hollow.
  • D.
    Spiraling over one thing I could have done better.
  • E.
    Feeling like everything everywhere is too much.
  • F.
    Watching another day pass without doing what matters to me.

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  The Overachiever

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  You're still delivering, but you're running on empty.You've built your identity around performance and for a long time that worked. But somewhere along the way the drive stopped feeling energizing and started feeling like survival. You're not working hard because you love it anymore. You're working hard because you don't know who you are without it.Try this: Block one hour this week with no agenda. No tasks, no productivity. Just rest. Not as a reward for finishing something. Just because you're allowed to.
• 2.
  The Caretaker

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  You show up for everyone except yourself.You are the person people call and your capacity for care is genuinely extraordinary. But you've confused being needed with being valued, and giving with being okay. The Caretaker's burnout is one of the quietest kinds because it looks so much like virtue from the outside. Nobody asks if you're okay because you're always the one asking everyone else.Try this: Before saying yes to the next request, ask yourself if you actually have the capacity. It's okay if the answer is no.
• 3.
  The Idealist

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  You still care, you've just lost the thread.At some point you had a clear sense of why you were doing what you were doing but the grind has buried it under deadlines and obligations. The Idealist's burnout is less about exhaustion and more about disconnection. You have the energy, you just don't know what to point it at anymore. The good news is the purpose is still there. It's just buried.Try this: Give yourself one day this week to work on something that actually excites you. Not what's on your to-do list. Something that reminds you why you started.
• 4.
  The Perfectionist

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  Your standards are high. Maybe too high. You care deeply about doing things well and that's actually one of your greatest strengths. The problem is that caring about quality has become caring about being flawless, and those are very different things. One drives great work. The other drives paralysis. Every task has become a test and the bar keeps moving even when everyone around you thinks you're doing brilliantly.Try this: Pick one task this week and give yourself permission to do it at 80%. Ship it anyway. Notice what actually happens.
• 5.
  The Dreamer

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  You're capable of more and you know it. You have real vision, the kind that sees around corners and imagines what could exist rather than just what does. But your day to day doesn't reflect any of that and the gap between who you are and what you're actually doing has become its own kind of exhaustion. You're not tired from overwork. You're tired from underuse. The ideas aren't the problem. What's missing is the first real step.Try this: Pick one small thing this week that's actually yours. A project, an idea, a conversation. Something that reminds you what you're capable of.
• 6.
  The Receiver

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  You feel everything and it's wearing you out. You are deeply attuned to the world around you and pick up on subtleties others miss. That sensitivity is a genuine gift but right now it's costing you more than it's giving you. Unlike other types of burnout that come from doing too much, yours comes from absorbing too much. The input never stops and your nervous system never fully resets.Try this: Set one hard boundary with your phone today. Even one hour completely off can begin to reset your system. Notice how your body feels when the noise stops.