The Burnout Generation

The Burnout Generation is a nonfiction book. It is written and narrated by Anne Helen Petersen. She is a renowned American journalist and author. She worked for BuzzFeed as a Senior Culture Writer and made a good name for herself through that work. As the narrator of The Burnout Generation, Anne Helen Petersen was fine and you wouldn’t face any big issues with it.

It was the month of January in 2019 when Anne Helen Petersen, a culture writer set the entire internet on fire. She did that with her BuzzFeed essay which went viral in no time. It was about the ‘millennial burnout’ diagnosis. It was meant to be a chronic state of exhaustion and stress that for the younger people of today has become a ‘base temperature. Then she continued that special generation-defining talk in a completely new way. She started interviewing millennials all around the country and asked them about their personal experiences with burnout and what culture it had created.

The listeners through The Burnout Generation will get to hear about how that issue has affected the own life of Anne Helen Peterson and as well as the lives of the few different people whom she interviewed.

The conversations that are covered in The Burnout Generation comprise everything from social media to debt to the blurred boundaries that are between our personal and professional lives. In this intimate and illuminating audio project, the listeners will get to learn why and how that generation has been conditioned in a way to ‘optimize’ every possible aspect of our lives. Most important of all, it also tells how the consequences of that particular phenomenon play a part in our daily life.