01/11/2026
If burnout is the emotional equivalent of having too many tabs open in one’s browser, understimulation is when you have only one tab open; and it’s a boring one. Both can look much alike on the surface, thus fooling people into thinking they’re tired, when, in reality, they’re just unchallenged. On a psychological level, these states couldn’t look more different.
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