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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Creativity
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden link between career exhaustion and creative depletion. Drawing on a 2021 study from the Journal of Applied Psychology that found a 42% drop in divergent thinking among burned-out professionals, they discuss why chronic stress shrinks your cognitive flexibility and how your brain's default mode network — the seat of spontaneous insight — gets hijacked by survival mode. Lucas shares a concrete example from a former ad agency creative director who lost the ability to generate campaign ideas after two years of 60-hour…
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