Three decades of research show that receiving support from colleagues is a robust antidote to burnout.

Adam Grant, Give & Take

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"I'm not the only one going through this," is a powerful truth. It can free us from the unnecessary shackles of self-imposed isolation. It can free us from needing to have all the answers all the time.

Repeat it often & it will pull our eyes up. Keep them up long enough & we will begin to see the others. Those searching for the kind of answers we are, or seeking the same reassurances, or instigating a similar sort of change.

Finding the others is like finding a lifeboat & it's more important than ever that we do - that we pick our head up, that we raise our voice, that we lend a hand.

It's hard to do. I fail to remember it more than I don't. But we have to remember, at a time when it's never been easier to dig our trenches & bunker down, to cover our heads & close our eyes, it's also never been easier to connect.

So let's aim for that. Connection in the face of separation. Support amid self-isolation. Signal in the cacophony of noise.

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