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Why keeping a smile on can be exhausting

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Emotional labor is the exhausting invisible work of managing your feelings to appease unreasonable people. Suppressing your natural urge to yell at obnoxious clients requires massive psychological effort that drains your daily mental reserves.

Why keeping a smile on can be exhausting
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