Rustout

Here comes another one of those things I couldn’t say better myself, so I let the original authors say it. In this case, they are Richard Leider and Stephen Buchholz:

“Rustout is the slow death that follows when we stop making choices that keep life alive. It’s the feeling of numbness that comes from taking the safe way, never accepting new challenges, continually surrendering to the day-to-day routine. Rustout means we are no longer growing, but at best, are simply maintaining. It implies that we have traded the sensation of life for the security of a paycheck. Rustout is the opposite of burnout. Burnout is overdoing. Rustout is underbeing.”