The average professional checks their email 74 times a day. We wear exhaustion like a trophy. We call it ambition. We call it dedication. What we don't call it is what it actually is: a way to avoid sitting still long enough to feel what we're running from. Because chronic overworking has very little to do with drive. It has everything to do with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of irrelevance. Fear that if you stop moving, something bad will catch up. What Chronic Overworking Rea