Full-Time Living

On work, burnout and the search for a life that feels whole. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s reckoning with success, exhaustion and the cost of always being on.

What happens when you reach the pinnacle of your career and discover that success feels empty?

When journalist Mar Cabra won the Pulitzer Prize as part of the team behind the Panama Papers investigation, she had achieved what many professionals spend a lifetime pursuing. Yet at the summit of her career, she found herself exhausted, anxious and unable to concentrate. Years of limitless work, constant connectivity and relentless ambition had taken a hidden toll.

Full-Time Living is the result of a decade-long personal and scientific inquiry into a question that haunts modern professionals: is it possible to excel without burning out?

Blending memoir with research in psychology and organisational science, Cabra dismantles the myth of productivity at all costs. Through five core pillars, she proposes a different way of working: one that honours boundaries, attention, rest, and meaning without renouncing ambition

This is not a rejection of success, but a redefinition of it. A deeply honest account of collapse and reconstruction, and a roadmap for anyone who has felt trapped in the cycle of hyperperformance and disconnection.