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Can't Even
- How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
- Narrated by: Anne Helen Peterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
An incendiary personal and cultural investigation of burnout.
Are you tired, stressed and trying your best but somehow still not doing enough? Has the bottom half of your to-do list been locked in place for months? Is everything becoming work as your job seeps into your evenings, you monetise your hobbies and perform your leisure time on social media?
This is burnout - what increasingly seems like the defining feature of our lives. We are exhausted. But burnout is not a personal failing. It is a creeping part of modern culture, shaped by deep-rooted political, historical and economic forces, and it is affecting how we work, parent, socialise and inhabit the world.
Anne Helen Petersen identifies burnout with moving clarity - what it feels like and how it manifests across communities. Through her own experience, original interviews and detailed analysis, she traces the institutional and generational causes of burnout. And, in doing so, she helps us to let go of our guilt and imagine a possible future.
Reassuring, insightful and galvanising, Can't Even is essential listening for all of us.
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A wanted to listen to this to understand about burnout. Within the first thirty minutes I felt depressed, a good way to build empathy but not a good way to understand about the whys and what's of burnout. Her voice makes you feel sad and low. A tough listen.