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How Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Your Calendar
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a quiet but pervasive symptom of workplace exhaustion: the way burnout distorts your sense of time, especially when every hour of your calendar feels pre-scheduled. They anchor the conversation in the concept of 'calendar anxiety' — that low-grade dread when you look at a week of back-to-back meetings. Drawing on a 2024 study from the University of California that found knowledge workers spend nearly 60 percent of their week in meetings, they discuss how burnout makes us overestimate the cost of free time and…
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