Part - I

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."

- Will Rogers

You have a dream, which is your raison d etre. But somehow when you get it, the irony is excruciating. Aptly described by Steven Berglas, a Los Angeles-based clinical psychologist as a feeling of "Is there all that is?"

Problem identification is the first step suggested by any cognizant manager. The cause here is a phrase, which seems trite in the management world, 'Early burnout'. How much is this burnout caused by Homo sapiens and how much by the play of the environment and circumstances, is debatable. The life cycle of these burnouts seems to be decreasing geometrically. From mid-career crisis to early-job disillusionments, and now to stress-jerks in B-schools, it seems to be spreading its tentacles everywhere.

Dr. Berglas, author of "Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout" (Random House, 2001), uses the term 'supernova burnout' to describe the career dissatisfaction that afflicts successful professionals and students. Such managers and prospective ones need to make changes but feel trapped by their success. Often, they can't admit to themselves what's happening because they've worked so hard to get where they are and are stunned to find it doesn't bring them happiness.

What are further mentioned are ways of dealing with this monster "Stress, early burn out et al".

Love It

A philosophy patronized by the likes of Bill Gates, Anil Ambani, Shah Rukh Khan... the list is endless.

Sometimes humans deal with situations in one of the most unexpected ways despite the fact that the entire world seems to be in a chase for the mantra of handling stress. This clan surely believes in beating the devil at his own game. They fight stress or rather they seem to enjoy it.

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* Contributed by -
Neelabh Tripathi,
PGP 2004-2006,
XIM Bhubaneswar.