Bonus episode: Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives
How We Live Now with Katherine May
The Importance of Burnout
There feels to me anyway that there's a sense that burnout is somehow the property of a slightly younger demographic if you like. I suppose we used to in fact even when I wrote shift I would have called it a breakdown and that had such negative connotations It was like a personal failure or it felt that way. But my sort of deeper understanding of burnout came from learning how it was autistic and the autistic community talk about burnout a lot. Like it's just something that's unavoidable if you're trying to fit in with a society that isn't really made for you. We've got so far to go to unravel all the threads that have produced that. The impact will be enormous
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