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How Burnout Quietly Rewires Your Relationship with Silence
In Episode 149 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a rarely discussed casualty of workplace exhaustion: our tolerance for silence. Drawing on a 2023 study from the University of Virginia where participants chose electric shocks over sitting alone in a quiet room for six to fifteen minutes, they trace how burnout hyper-stimulates our default mode network, making quiet feel unbearable. They discuss concrete recovery strategies: a media diet, weekly digital sabbaths, and 'silence snacks'—short, intentional pauses that rebuild tolerance. The episode also tackles the…
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