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Ep. 165: Why Are We Burnt Out?
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
The Overhead Spirale in Knowledge Work
When you have excessive work volume, what happens is you have more on your plate than this region of your brain can reasonably actually consider and plan how to get it done. It's just like how we crave sugar. The same thing we crave give mou something to do when we make a plan and execute and feel good. But if we put 75 things on our todo list, we can't even conceive of how we're goin to get all those things done. We feel bad, right? There's a nerological source of burn out here. My my editor at the new yorker wisely cut that out. I did actually get into some of the actual brain stuff going on
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