The Burnout Club: Now Considered A Disease With A Membership Price You Don't Want To Pay For Success ForbesBurnout–Now Classified By The World Health Organization As A Disease–Is Neither A Badge Of Honor Nor A Price To Pay For Success. Only when I, like Bryan Robinson, was forced by one too many episodes of burnout did I begin to see work as an irreplaceable part of my life, but not the whole of my life. And only then did I begin to focus on what I could uniquely do instead of trying to do everything—thus beginning to be far more effective as a worker.—Gloria Steinem, activist/politician Some of the best high-profile personalities among us, like Gloria Steinem, have been there. And so has the si...