Why We're All Burnt Out
There Are No Girls on the Internet
iHeartPodcasts
4.1 • 905 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a little different than the usual ones. Bridget is feeling out of sorts and is joined by Anne Helen Peterson, author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation and editor of Substack's Culture Study to talk about why so many of us are feeling burnt out and what can be done about it.
Get Anne's book: https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Even-Millennials-Burnout-Generation/dp/0358315077
How Work Became an Inescapable Hellhole : https://www.wired.com/story/how-work-became-an-inescapable-hellhole/
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work
Check out Anne’s Substack Culture Study: https://annehelen.substack.com/
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| 0:29.2 | Terms apply. |
| 0:33.9 | There are no girls on the internet |
| 0:35.3 | as a production of IHeart Radio |
| 0:36.7 | and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:42.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:47.4 | This is going to be a little bit different of an episode than what we usually do. |
| 0:51.3 | Because things aren't normal, and I don't feel normal, and you probably don't feel |
| 0:55.4 | normal either. If you're anything like me, a combination of never-ending depressing news, |
| 1:01.5 | IRL events and connections being replaced with more time sitting in front of a computer, |
| 1:05.6 | and the overall creeping feeling of mounting instability, has left you feeling drained, exhausted, distracted, |
| 1:13.2 | unmotivated, and burnt out. In her viral BuzzFeed essay called How Millennials became the |
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