The secret weapon against burnout could depend on finding your ‘placeholder purpose,’ resilience expert says. Here’s how

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Many workplace experts will tell you that finding your purpose is an effective way to reverse the effects of burnout. Knowing that today’s work will propel you one step closer to where you hope to be thirty years from now may put a little pep in your step. But what if you don’t know the long game for your life (yet)? 

If writing a purpose statement for who you hope to be decades from now sounds daunting, Dr. Amit Sood, one of the world's leading experts on resilience and well-being, recommends choosing a “placeholder purpose.”