My main question after this prompt, even being familiar with your story, is “What does a bison have to do with burnout?” Is that what you’re looking for, or did you want to provoke a more substantive burnout-related discussion?

I like this question as it is written: How a charging bison gave me a crash course on burnout.

I see where Ruth is coming from that is might be more thought provoking. I think you should experiment with this one and see what happens.

You have probably experimented by now… but what it tells me is that if a charging bison can teach you about burnout, I know I can ask you absolutely anything !

It is an amazing concept.
I would possibly open slightly differently.
“There I was hiking in the bone-dry Texas canyon, keeping my eyes glued to the ground for rattlesnakes. Frankly, I am terrified of rattlesnakes! All of sudden….”
While I love the line “what a bison taught me about burnout”, I get that a charging bison can teach you about stress, I’m struggling how you get from stress to burnout. Maybe you need one more line that makes the flow easier to follow.