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When Enough Is Enough – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A meditation on burnout, worth, and the quiet rebellion of stopping.
What if burnout isn’t a failure of energy, but a clarity of vision? In this episode, we trace the contours of exhaustion—not as collapse, but as quiet refusal. Drawing from the work of Byung-Chul Han, Lauren Berlant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Virginia Woolf, we explore how the ethic of constant optimisation fractures our sense of time, identity, and rest. This is an episode for anyone who has confused stillness with failure—and is beginning to suspect otherwise.
Instead of solutions, we offer attention. A new rhythm of presence. A permission to belong in your life without performing it. Through the philosophical lens of phenomenology, the emotional textures of burnout are re-read as signals of misalignment—not of ambition, but of inherited narratives about value, time, and selfhood.
Reflections
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To stop isn’t to disappear. It’s to reappear on your own terms.
#Burnout #ByungChulHan #LaurenBerlant #Phenomenology #MerleauPonty #VirginiaWoolf #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast #RestIsRadical #AttentionOverEffort #QuietRebellion #EthicsOfEnough
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When Enough Is Enough – The Deeper Thinking Podcast
The Deeper Thinking Podcast
A meditation on burnout, worth, and the quiet rebellion of stopping.
What if burnout isn’t a failure of energy, but a clarity of vision? In this episode, we trace the contours of exhaustion—not as collapse, but as quiet refusal. Drawing from the work of Byung-Chul Han, Lauren Berlant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Virginia Woolf, we explore how the ethic of constant optimisation fractures our sense of time, identity, and rest. This is an episode for anyone who has confused stillness with failure—and is beginning to suspect otherwise.
Instead of solutions, we offer attention. A new rhythm of presence. A permission to belong in your life without performing it. Through the philosophical lens of phenomenology, the emotional textures of burnout are re-read as signals of misalignment—not of ambition, but of inherited narratives about value, time, and selfhood.
Reflections
Here are some reflections that surfaced along the way:
Why Listen?
Listen On:
Support This Work
If you’d like to support the ongoing work, you can visit buymeacoffee.com/thedeeperthinkingpodcast or leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Thank you.
Bibliography
Bibliography Relevance
To stop isn’t to disappear. It’s to reappear on your own terms.
#Burnout #ByungChulHan #LaurenBerlant #Phenomenology #MerleauPonty #VirginiaWoolf #TheDeeperThinkingPodcast #RestIsRadical #AttentionOverEffort #QuietRebellion #EthicsOfEnough
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