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How Career Burnout Makes You Lose Your Sense of Agency
In episode 91 of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout strips away your sense of agency — the feeling that you can influence your own life. They anchor the discussion in the concept of 'learned helplessness,' originally studied by psychologist Martin Seligman in 1967. Lucas explains how a 2022 meta-analysis in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology found that burnout and low perceived control correlate at r = 0.52, a strong effect. The hosts dissect a real scenario: a marketing manager who stopped pitching ideas after her boss rejected six in a row…
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