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I really don't even get the concept. Like, what they gave up because life was too hard? that's not special... that's most people.
Though I find in my 40s that a lot of people I meet think I have 'given up' on life because I'm not in a corporate job running the rat race agonizing about my level of 'success' in terms of money compared to others around me, or debt spending myself into the appearance of being wealthy. A lot of people get offended by by 10 year old Honda Civic on principle. Apparently if I 'had drive' I'd replace it with an Audi S3 and piss away like $1000/mo on it.
the mentality about being 'burnt out' is so utterly bizarre in america. apparently having a good job and living a comfortable life is 'failure' for a lot of people.
I went through this. It's a well known thing.
Say you're a little smarter than average, nothing to write home about, "bright normal" like me. You rock out in primary school because it's aimed far too low for you. Your parents and teachers tell you how smart you are. You get the better teachers and maybe some more advanced classes. When you get into the real world of college, first year isn't much different from high school, but then study quickly gets serious.
Faced with educational difficulties for the first time, you figure you're just not smart enough to handle it and give up. You never had to work hard before, hell, you barely even studied, you don't know how. You never internalized that everyone has to work hard to advance. Your peers that are doing well are doing so because they worked for it, but you don't see the behind the scenes action.
One of many reasons I went into IT was that it was hard work I didn't mind.
I don't think you understand what burnout is. Your brain is a muscle, and just like the muscles in your arms and legs, it needs to be worked out, and it needs it's rest periods. If you overwork your brain too much too often it will become strained and need a break to recover. This is called burnout.
The gifted kid who isn't giving themselves the necessary breaks will study 7 days a week and keep working their brains super hard. Their brains are freaking ripped from all of the constant exercise, but they're also being pushed to their limits and beyond. Their brain is screaming for a break, it's completely beyond it's limit, and then it becomes strained and won't operate at anywhere near the strength it was operating at before. Now they're forced to rest whether they want to or not. Except society doesn't think of brains as muscles, so we don't give the really brain-strong kids breaks or make sure they get their rest days so they strain and injury themselves as a result. The injury isnt like with arm or leg muscles which tear or may cause a fall, instead it's more psychological (with of course physiological backing)
So gifted kid burnout isn't just "boo hoo life is hard" it's "holy shit I can't do a quarter of what I once did in my sleep!" except we live in a society that highly values brain work and compensates it accordingly, so these gifted kids who've burnt out are now also struggling financially and they know it!
exactly. way too many people here conflate being told they were smart in kindergarten with that they should have won a noble prize or something.
It's nothing more that egotistical delusion. They also totally forget... that their teachers/parents were simple wrong. I used to get all this 'gifted' praize when I was a kid... but I never really believed it because I knew most adults were morons. I realized my own parents were idiots when I was like 6, one of my earliest memories and I learned to never trust their commentary about me or the world.
I never met a halfway smart adult into high school, and never met a legit intelligent one until college.
i thought maybe i was "special", looking all around for some kind of explanation for what the fuck is wrong with me...and then one day (after a mental breakdown, which triggered an acid flashback) I realized...I think I might just be fucking lonely man. I honestly can't remember the last time I hugged anyone, or engaged in anything more intimate than a handshake
*there's definitely seems to be something wrong with my brain chemistry, but without fixing some core issues I know realize I'v been ignoring I really can't be sure if it's not just a symptom something more mundane