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The Natural Cure for Burnout Is Profound and Utter Awe

Awe deprivation is common, but it doesn’t need to be

Brad Stulberg

Jul 19, 2019·4 min read

An Apollo 11 astronaut’s footprint in the lunar soil, photographed by a 70 mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 lunar surface extravehicular activity Photo: NASA/Getty Images

Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, who piloted Apollo 14 and was the sixth American to walk on the moon, once described his 1971 lunar landing mission as an “ecstasy of unity.” The experience, he said, offered “an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness.”