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How Career Burnout Silences Your Intuition
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Lucas and Luna explore how chronic workplace exhaustion doesn't just drain your energy — it also erodes your ability to trust your gut. Drawing on research from psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer on ecological rationality and a 2024 study from the Journal of Experimental Psychology, they discuss why burnout blunts intuitive decision-making and what you can do to rebuild that inner signal. Lucas shares a specific case from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster where ignored gut feelings had catastrophic consequences, and Luna offers a practical recovery practice called the 'two-minute gut check' that listeners can try today. This episode goes beyond surface-level self-care advice to address a lesser-known cognitive cost of burnout: the loss of rapid, unconscious judgment. No scripts, no platitudes — just a focused conversation on reclaiming the quiet voice that burnout often drowns out.