And the paradox is that this kind of slavery is also a kind of ultimate medicine for burnout. It frees us to be unimportant, to not have any special recognition or position. It also frees us to not have to be a success. Success or failure is not the problem of the slave. It is the master's problem.
Slaves just do the best they can.
And they have to rest and be healthy, too. In the Slave II Modality we begin to see that it is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all - as long as we are doing it with Jesus. C. S. Lewis in one of his essays talks about the difference between Norse mythology and Greek mythology. In Norse mythology the gods don t win in the end. When history comes to its conclusion, Father Odin and the gods will finally be overcome by the forces of darkness and chaos, and every Scandinavian knew that was the way it was going to end.