Since turning 75 in July, I’ve been unable to coherently write about the burnout that I began to experience on my birthday. I became so frustrated by this utter failure to express myself through words that I flirted with using the seductive temptress ChatGPT. However, like a vicar in heat, I abstained, lest I cross a line … into addiction.
Ultimately, I used any residual A(ctual) Intelligence I could muster to jot down a few prompts—because in the AI era, “questions” (e.g., What is your name?, Where is the exit?, What is existence?) have become “prompts.”
Maybe, since we’re all in a massive prompt, some of you can weigh in on these …
How would you define burnout?
Is burnout a perfect storm of creative, professional (and other) factors?
How do you know when you are burning out?
What has triggered burnout for you in the past?
How did the burnout present?
How long did the burnout last?
Is burnout solely a creative issue?
Does burnout trigger other maladies?
Is burnout individual or does it involve others?
What do you do to ease, conceal or stop burnout?
In the meantime, I asked (prompted) Mirko Ilic to find a visual way of expressing burnout, which he captured better than I could …
From Ilic’s forthcoming comics collection A.C.2020.
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