This is the most curative conversation I've had for as long as I can remember. And the opening is...wow.

Sources: The Point's "Treat Yourself" by Apoorva Tadepalli

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/treat-yourself/

The Point's "Quarantine Journal: Notes from the Inside" "The Concept of Work" by Apoorva Tadepalli

https://thepointmag.com/quarantine-journal/#concept-of-work

Buzzfeed's "How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation"

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

Christopher Lasch, author of "The Culture of Narcissism"

Audre Lorde's quote: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” from "A Burst of Light: and Other Essays"

Therapist Katie Moore's definition of burnout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYy8zKjamx0&t=12s

The Washington Post article mentioned: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/12/during-pandemic-isaac-newton-had-work-home-too-he-used-time-wisely/

"According to scholarship": that scholarship reflected by J Shapiro's The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606.

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