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The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Career Burnout Reshapes Your Relationship with Boredom
- Published
- July 13, 2026
- Duration
- 7:40
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive symptom of career …
Summary
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive symptom of career burnout: the loss of tolerance for boredom. Drawing on a 2024 Microsoft study that found the average attention span on a single task has dropped to 47 seconds, they discuss how burnout rewires the brain to crave constant stimulation, making stillness and bo…
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In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive symptom of career burnout: the loss of tolerance for boredom. Drawing on a 2024 Microsoft study that found the average attention span on a single task has dropped to 47 seconds, they discuss how burnout rewires the brain to crave constant stimulation, making stillness and boredom feel unbearable. Lucas shares research from psychologist Dr. Sandi Mann, who argues that boredom is a creative gateway, and Luna recounts