Lucas
The Burnout Podcast with Fexingo: Workplace Exhaustion, Recovery, and Sustainable Careers
How Burnout Makes You Hoard Your Focus
- Published
- August 29, 2026
- Duration
- 9:13
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 13, 2026
Discusses In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but telling symptom of chron…
Summary
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but telling symptom of chronic workplace exhaustion: the instinct to guard your attention like a scarce resource. They anchor the conversation in the story of a senior product manager who, after two years of relentless deadlines, started scheduling 'focus blocks' that no one was allow…
Intelligent Report
Sign in to read teasers, or upgrade to Research Pro to commission intelligent report for this episode. Learn more →
Show notes
In this episode of The Burnout Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but telling symptom of chronic workplace exhaustion: the instinct to guard your attention like a scarce resource. They anchor the conversation in the story of a senior product manager who, after two years of relentless deadlines, started scheduling 'focus blocks' that no one was allowed to touch — even her own team leads. The episode digs into why burnout makes us territorial about our time, how that hoarding breeds isolatio