What happens when exhaustion becomes the alibi for staying exactly where you are?

Burnout has become the most socially acceptable way to avoid making a choice. We treat it like something that happens to us. But for most people, it's not overwork. It's the exhaustion of maintaining a life you've already decided against but haven't admitted yet. This episode names the decision you're not making and the years you'll lose pretending it doesn't exist. One diagnostic question. Zero comfort. You already know what this is about.

Your brain wasn’t built for infinite stimulation, infinite choice, or infinite scrolling. Dopamine doesn’t create pleasure... it creates anticipation. And modern life traps us in wanting without ever letting the chase end.

This episode explains how engagement-driven tech hijacks the brain’s reward system, why novelty beats meaning, and why boredom isn’t a failure, it’s the reset.

No detox cults. No self-help woo woo.
Just a smarter way to understand what’s happening, and one small, realistic experiment to help your brain feel human again!

Follow Unusual Practice if you’re tired of feeling wired, distracted, and weirdly unsatisfied.... aaaand want your attention back without disappearing off the grid.

Welcome to the part of manifestation culture no one warned you about: the part where being sad became a moral failure.

Where your depression wasn't an illness - it was resistance. Your anxiety wasn't a symptom- it was self-sabotage.

Your grief? Oh, that was just you blocking your blessings.

Apparently, the universe only delivers packages to people with good vibes.

The rest of us? We're on the "low frequency" blacklist.

Time to level up for 2026!