Edel Coffey: I felt an affinity with Jacinda Ardern when she said sometimes it is time to stop

The fact that Ardern’s speech felt revolutionary is an indicator of how much we still see the expression of a personal limit as weakness

Ardern didn’t mention the word burnout, but it was hard not to think of the phenomenon as she described her feelings about the job of being prime minister, writes Edel Coffey 

I was intrigued by former New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern’s, resignation speech last week. 

Instead of giving the usual political spiel, Ardern announced that she was resigning because she simply didn’t have “enough in the tank” to do the job justice.