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“Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us — until we burn out.”
― Berend van der Kolk, The Quantified Society: How our obsession with performance measurement shapes the world we live in