Julia Keller on Quitting and the Myth of Perseverance | RSam Pod #25
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Julia Keller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and teacher. She earned a Ph.D. at Ohio State University. She has taught at Princeton University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Notre Dame and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She's the author of 'Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance―and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free.' In this episode, we discuss burnout and the sociology of quitting in a Neoliberal society. Julia's book: Quitting: A Life Strategy: The Myth of Perseverance―and How the New Science of Giving Up Can Set You Free ---------------------------------------   {Podcast} Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4ryEqjut4r6SMtfxLdM1Le⁠⁠⁠ Anchor: ⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/rahul-samaranayake⁠⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/c/RahulSam⁠⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠https://rsampod.substack.com/⁠   Website} ⁠https://rahulsam.me/⁠   {Social Media} ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/trsam97⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/name_is_rahul/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-samaranayake-981a9315b/⁠⁠⁠ {Reference Links} https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25490360-the-burnout-society   --------------------------------------- If the ideas I discuss in this podcast evoke your interest, consider visiting ⁠⁠⁠https://theunhappyman.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠ ---------------------------------------   Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of the related material, please send me an email at [email protected], and we can sort it out. Thank you.
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