β¦-out person notices their abilities slipping, they scramble to recoup them as fast as they can. But burnout is one of the bodyβs final defenses against unrelenting, unsustainable demand, and it is only by reevaluating those demands and abandoning a huge number of them that we can actually begin to heal β and heal as the people we are, not the hyper-reliable workhorses we long to be.