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How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Silence
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore a rarely-discussed symptom of burnout: the inability to sit with silence. They anchor the conversation with a 2024 University of Virginia study showing that participants in a quiet room without distractions chose to self-administer mild electric shocks rather than sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes — and how burnout amplifies that discomfort. Lucas explains the neuroscience: the default mode network, which helps us process emotions and memories, gets hijacked by chronic stress, making silence feel unbearable. They discuss how burned-out…
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