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		<title>Time’s Not a Budget: Why Everything Happening at Once Exhausts Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There’s a kind of tiredness that has nothing to do with sleep. You wake up with it already installed. It feels less like exhaustion and more like static. Too many tabs open in the mind. Too many unfinished gestures. Too many tiny negotiations with the day before it has even started. For a while I thought this was just adulthood. Or work. Or the news cycle. Pick your villain. Then, a few weeks ago, I read Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks. In one chapter, his basic claim is disarmingly simple: modern people don’t merely live in time, we treat time as something like a budget or a storage unit — something to fill efficiently, optimize, defend from waste. Hours become containers. Empty ones feel like failure. Overfull ones feel like guilt. Either way, we’re measuring constantly. Reading it, something clicked. Not because it was revolutionary, but because it named a background hum I’d stopped noticing. A few days later I stumbled across a long piece in Die ZEIT about people who had spent time &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why You Get the «Sunday Scaries» and What You Can Do About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Are you already thinking about tomorrow’s Monday today? With worry, perhaps? Even with fear? If so, you’re not alone. But why do we dread Monday so much? And what can we do about it? Firstly, let’s look at some numbers. A British study by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities found that 67 percent of all Britons are already afraid of Monday on Sundays. In February, Fortune magazine reported that one in two managers are affected by this fear, although not every week. And according to ABC’s «Good Morning America», the fear of Mondays was at an all-time high in 2021, with 78 percent of millennials and Gen-Xers affected. The phenomenon, known as the «Sunday scaries» or sometimes «Sunday blues», was first mentioned in the Urban Dictionary in 2009. And it’s far from trivial, as a look at its symptoms reveals: a racing heart rate, irritability, restlessness, looming negative thoughts, upset stomach, headache, or sweating. However, it’s important to note that this is not a clinical diagnosis of an anxiety disorder. Interestingly, the Sunday &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Stress Is Not a Rainbow: Debunking a Folklorical Management Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of the concept of a sweet spot of stress? If so, you’ve heard about the Yerkes-Dodson Law (YDL) — the idea that there’s an optimal level of strain for peak performance. It’s been widely cited in management and organizational psychology, but what if I told you it’s not as clear-cut as you might think? Yerkes and Dodson originally conducted research on the behaviour of Japanese dancing mice (!), focusing on the relationship between arousal and learning. That was 1908. Although focussing on rodents, their paper was cited in psychology journals, the findings were elevated to the status of a psychological «law», and the YDL — stating that «optimum motivation for a learning task decreases with increasing difficulty» — was born. Over time, their concept was more and more simplified and generalized to the modern-day variant, «that ‹some stress is necessary for optimal performance and stress levels below or above this optimal level are detrimental to performance›,» as Martin Corbett stated in a 2014 paper in the Journal of Managerial Psychology. This &#8230;]]></description>
		
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