Are You Burned Out Or On The Wrong Path?

Two weeks ago, I was asked an intriguing question:

“What’s the difference between being burned out or being on the wrong path?”

I received the question from a reader after sending out a newsletter. Context was provided; her husband was a physician, and she noticed his colleagues’ lack of enjoyment in medicine. They were no longer energized by their work. “What gives?”, she wondered.

All I can proffer are the subtleties understood while living in both distinctions, in many places, across years.