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The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Rewrites Your Career Story
- Published
- July 27, 2026
- Duration
- 7:40
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 2, 2026
Discusses When burnout hits, it doesn't just drain your energy—it reshapes the story you tell yourself about y…
Summary
When burnout hits, it doesn't just drain your energy—it reshapes the story you tell yourself about your work. This episode dives into narrative identity theory and how exhaustion can distort your career narrative, making success feel hollow and failure feel permanent. We look at the 2023 study from the Journal of Vocational Behavior that tracked 200 profe…
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When burnout hits, it doesn't just drain your energy—it reshapes the story you tell yourself about your work. This episode dives into narrative identity theory and how exhaustion can distort your career narrative, making success feel hollow and failure feel permanent. We look at the 2023 study from the Journal of Vocational Behavior that tracked 200 professionals over three years and found that burnout was often preceded by a narrative shift: people stopped seeing themselves as agents of their c