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Discussion on: Preventing burnout 😴

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Sobakus

As a looong time professional developer I can tell you that a very important antidote against burnout is positive feedback, and I mean it. Receiving positive feedback from your colleagues and management changes a lot your perception on everything you do and feel about your job.

That means its very important that you give back positive feedback too, it works wonders preventing burnout symdrome in your team.

If you are a manager/team lead/tech lead/whatever, keep in mind this is YOUR most important mission, above anything else. If you haven't realized it yet, you haven't been doing your job properly.

Another good medicine, in my case, are cats. They have the superpower of popping the bubble of introspection that swallow us as developers when we are solving what, for us, seems to be the most important problem in the world.

When my cats step on my keyboard, or complain because they want some affection, or food, they make me distance away from that big problem for a while. And distance makes things look smaller, isn't it ;)