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Burnout and the Loss of Your Workday Curiosity
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly rob you of your curiosity at work. When you're running on empty, the questions that once drove you — 'why does this process fail?', 'what's the story behind this number?' — start to feel like luxuries you can't afford. Drawing on the 1960s psychological concept of learned helplessness and a 2025 study linking curiosity with lower burnout scores, they discuss why curiosity is often the first casualty of chronic stress, and how it's also a path back to engagement. They…
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