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How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Career Story
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can fracture the narrative we tell ourselves about our careers. They discuss the concept of 'career story' — the internal script that gives our work meaning — and how burnout can cause us to rewrite that script in damaging ways. Using the example of a mid-career software engineer who, after a period of intense burnout, began to see her entire career as a series of mistakes, they examine the psychological mechanisms at play, including confirmation bias and rumination. They also introduce the practice of 'narrative…
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