I think this is the burnout decade. There isn't a will is there because I did. Like we've got ourselves into a situation where work is intruding into every aspect of our lives, where we are never allowed to switch off. We're like our level of responsibility to be conscious about everything all the time has become just bigger than our brains are capable of holding. And we feel profoundly disconnected from all of the solaces that might help us in that. You know it is a conversation about capitalism ultimately really and the way that it's set up...We only know how to derive our self-esteem from the system that there is now"
We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new book Enchantment in radio and podcast interviews. We wanted to share one of these conversations with you in the How We Live Now podcast feed.
In this episode of The Shift with Sam Baker, Sam and Katherine talk about Katherine’s midlife autism diagnosis, why she believes we’re living through the burnout decade and how to wrest back control of our lives from our work.
Find all the episodes of the The Shift with Sam Baker here: https://podfollow.com/the-shift-on-life-after-40-with-sam-baker
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