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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Friendships
Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just stay at the office — it rewires your social life. They discuss a 2024 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology that found burned-out professionals lose an average of two close friendships per year, and the psychological mechanism called 'social withdrawal cascade' that explains why. Lucas shares a case from a Deloitte consultant who stopped seeing friends entirely after a 14-month project, and Luna talks about the 'friendship audit' method that helped her recover her social circle. The episode…
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