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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Gratitude
Episode 118 of The Burnout Podcast explores a less-discussed casualty of chronic workplace exhaustion: your ability to feel and express genuine gratitude. Lucas and Luna examine research from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center showing that burnout dampens the brain's capacity for appreciation because sustained stress depletes the neural circuits involved in positive reflection. They walk through a real-world case: a senior product manager at a mid-size SaaS company who spent 18 months in a high-demand role and found herself unable to feel thankful even for good outcomes. The…
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