Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
Burnout and the Loss of Your Workday Curiosity
- Published
- August 23, 2026
- Duration
- 9:19
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 30, 2026
Discusses In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly rob you of yo…
Summary
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly rob you of your curiosity at work. When you're running on empty, the questions that once drove you — 'why does this process fail?', 'what's the story behind this number?' — start to feel like luxuries you can't afford. Drawing on the 1960s psychological concept of learn…
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In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how burnout can quietly rob you of your curiosity at work. When you're running on empty, the questions that once drove you — 'why does this process fail?', 'what's the story behind this number?' — start to feel like luxuries you can't afford. Drawing on the 1960s psychological concept of learned helplessness and a 2025 study linking curiosity with lower burnout scores, they discuss why curiosity is often the first casualty of chronic