Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Failure
- Published
- July 19, 2026
- Duration
- 6:45
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout rewires our perception of failure, turning ordinary setbac…
Summary
Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout rewires our perception of failure, turning ordinary setbacks into catastrophic evidence of inadequacy. They dive into the psychology of 'failure dysmorphia' — a term coined by organizational psychologist Dr. Emily Park — and how it distorts risk assessment, decision-making, and recovery. Using the example of a mid…
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Lucas and Luna explore how career burnout rewires our perception of failure, turning ordinary setbacks into catastrophic evidence of inadequacy. They dive into the psychology of 'failure dysmorphia' — a term coined by organizational psychologist Dr. Emily Park — and how it distorts risk assessment, decision-making, and recovery. Using the example of a mid-career project manager who froze after a minor budget miss, they discuss why burned-out professionals over-punish themselves and how to recali