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EP024 - Why Sunday Nights Fill You With Dread

An examination of anticipatory anxiety, shrinking personal time, unfinished tasks, work notifications and blurred boundaries - and the practical limits of personal routines when the workload itself is the problem.

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The Human Door
It is still Sunday afternoon, and your mind is already rehearsing Monday.
The Hidden System
Work no longer ends at a boundary, so the final hours of the weekend are spent mentally rehearsing the week ahead.
The Universal Question
Who owns the last hours of your weekend?
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