You don’t have to collapse to know something is wrong.
Sometimes burnout doesn’t look like a breakdown. It looks like waking up with dread before a day full of meetings you used to enjoy. It looks like resenting the career you built from scratch. It looks like success that no longer satisfies and exhaustion that no amount of rest can fix.
For many high performers, that feeling is a warning signal. For Sir James Gray Robinson, it is the moment where real leadership begins.