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Burnout, stress, exhaustion are physical symptoms that can be quite devastating.  They are physical.  Yet they often seem mental.  There is a good explanation for that.  Mentally, we function on inputs from the body’s senses and past experiences.  These are processed by the brain to allow mental consideration.  When we are required or we choose to contemplate and solve conditions that are outside our comfort zones mentally, we may compensate by driving the body to exhaustion and even burnout attepting either to solve the challenge with insufficient insight or to accumulate more insight at a pace faster than we can acquire it.  We are exhausted by both the process and the attempts to manage through greater physical exertion.  This exhaustion, either in the biochemical or physiological function of the body as a whole, or of the neuronal pathways that bring information to the min can so stagnate mental function that we attribute the failure to occur there.  Just remember that the insufficiency of btreathing through a straw is not a lung problem; it is a problem of the pathway to the lung.

If you can look at the above summary, you will see that, whatever the urgency of the demand on us, at that time we are unable to apply ourselves intelligently to the problem.  That is okay.  The logical strategy for management is to first restore physical function, then know how to examine both our insight limitations and the demands of the situation.  In other words, we must release the urgency so we regain the strength to address our challenges, not with a repetition of the previous method, with an ability to reassess both conditions – ourselves and the object – rationally. It is a gratifying proposition when done with deeper understanding and logic.