"Strive for Excellence" and Other Pathways to Burnout

Cognitive Resets for Avoiding Burnout

As a young Christian at Michigan State University I read Shadow of the Almighty, Elizabeth Eliot’s stirring presentation of the well-known life of her late husband Jim. The book inspired many, I’m told, but it messed me up. I was in love, but was I supposed to get married? Wasn’t it better to be single? Maybe marriage was a temptation to give less to Go…