‘Ever since I burned out at my last job, I haven’t been able to read.’ It sounded like a hopeless exaggeration, but it was more or less the truth. If I read more than one side of A4 a day, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of such despondency that I was unable to function. At the same time, my brain would fire up and I’d be on full alert. It was a really tiresome combination.
