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Burnout and the Loss of Your Workday Play
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout quietly kills the impulse to play at work — the experiments, the half-baked ideas, the joy of tinkering. They anchor the conversation in the surprising science of play, from Stuart Brown's research on play deprivation to a concrete example from a software engineer who stopped building side projects because 'what's the point?' They discuss why play is not the opposite of work but a component of sustainable performance, how the brain's reward system dulls under chronic stress, and what it takes to reintroduce play…
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