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
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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