Four Burner continental range

Decision Making Life Lessons. One way to think about work-life balance is with a concept known as The Four Burners Theory. Here's how it was first explained to me: Imagine that your life is represented by a stove with four burners on it. Each burner symbolizes one major quadrant of your life.A burner is a device which produces heat or a flame, especially as part of a cooker, stove, or heater. He put the frying pan on the gas burner.