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🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | The joy is sapped not only out of your work, but out of other things, too, because everything |
0:04.4 | is flattened into one long to-do list. And nothing feels like fulfillment. Nothing feels cathartic. |
0:12.3 | It's just one damn thing after another. |
0:17.0 | I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly, a podcast about pacing yourself, |
0:24.4 | where I explore how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient through the simple act of slowing down. |
0:32.9 | In recent episodes, we've taken a deep dive into my personal journey to burnout and back, |
0:39.3 | as well as meditating on the concept of efficiency, |
0:43.3 | and how an obsession with optimization has seemed to invade nearly every corner of our lives. |
0:51.3 | I wonder, could there be a relationship between this fixation on efficiency |
0:56.7 | and our rising rates of burnout? The obvious answer is, of course, yes, but it turns out that |
1:04.5 | there's a lot more depth and complexity underlying this phenomenon of overwork. |
1:12.4 | To help me explore those nuances, my guest today is Anne Helen Peterson, senior culture writer at BuzzFeed, |
1:20.8 | and the author of a recent article that went viral called How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. |
1:29.3 | It's a fairly in-depth article, but Anne had me hooked from the fourth paragraph, |
1:35.3 | with the intriguing phrase errand paralysis, as in that list of errands that stuck on your fridge |
1:43.3 | or sitting on a post-it on your desk that you just |
1:46.3 | can't seem to do no matter what. And when Anne started pulling on that thread, that |
1:53.4 | psychic block against mundane errands, what she found was a trail of small decisions, actions, and habits that led her all the way into a cathartic realization that she was living in a state of burnout. |
2:09.4 | In this conversation, we talk about how the millennial generation has been groomed to be obsessed with work practically from birth, additional factors that |
2:20.7 | contribute to burnout like carrying heavy student debt, and why we need to bring back mandatory |
2:28.2 | vacation. But this is not just a conversation for millennials because we're all impacted by burnout. |
2:37.0 | And we're all impacted by millennials. |
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