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How Burnout Makes You Hoard Your Focus
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but telling symptom of chronic workplace exhaustion: the instinct to guard your attention like a scarce resource. They anchor the conversation in the story of a senior product manager who, after two years of relentless deadlines, started scheduling 'focus blocks' that no one was allowed to touch — even her own team leads. The episode digs into why burnout makes us territorial about our time, how that hoarding breeds isolation, and what a recovery-minded workplace can do about it. Lucas cites research on…
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