BURNOUT. Is this the end?

About This Video

Brain shuts down at 11 a.m. Used to be 5 p.m., then 3, then 1. Energy vanishes, body follows. Van used to summon the last emergency bits with anger and rage. He can't do that anymore.

The routine (developed and refined over three years) is the job. One of the MasterClass writers hammered it home: routine over everything. But the routine itself is exhausted. The fatigue feels fake, cunning, baffling. He suspects it begins in the spirit, not the body. Nietzsche: he who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Van quotes the philosopher who lost his mind while asking whether his own fatigue is laziness, or cowardice disguised as laziness. The fix is white knuckles. Switch the run from 6:20 a.m. to 9 a.m. to keep writing sessions uninterrupted, plan a trip, plan a big break. Slow down but don't stop. This is the part of the marathon where you swallow your pride and walk.

Transcript

oh I might have to [Music] than okay come on hey X is your water bottle red yeah yeah go and take it inside

[Music] [Applause] [Music] the current iteration of this routine has been developed and refined over the course of the past 3

[Music] years one of the master class writers or maybe several of them have hammered home that the routine is the job routine over

[Music] everything so many bathroom breaks doctor says it's fine can I do lack of energy is the problem energy vanishes brain shuts down used to happen at 5:00 p.m. then 3 then

months later 1 p.m. now it's 11:00 a.m. brain shuts down at 11:00 a.m. body follows used to use anger and rage to

summon the last emergency bits of energy but we can't do that anymore

hard out at 2:30 to pick up the boy okay I want to take Mom the blessing the greatest blessing

is time spent with the boy some energy creeps back with the boy by Friday though it's

gone the nap tweak doesn't seem to work the nap tweak knocks him out for the day

it seems but he naps anyway used to be able to work until 5:00

p.m. then 3:00 p.m. then 1 now 11:00 a.m. brain shuts down at 11:00 a.m. this is burnout slow burnout one cylinder at a time current iteration the starving man thinks only

give bread this spirited man thinks only of sleep he suspects that this fatigue is not physical wow you're a

Skelly waa look at you I got face pained he suspects this fatigue begins in the

spirit he who has a why to live can bear almost any how so saith the philosopher who lost his mind is it laziness the fatigue comes from a form of laziness or cowardice disguised as

laziness maybe laziness disguised as cowardice the routine is there to

optimize energy productivity and Sanity but the routine itself is

exhausted this burnout feels fake cunning baffling going to fight through

it going to switch the run from 6:20 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. to keep the writing sessions un

interrupted got a trip planned that might help got a big break planned that must

help until then it's White Knuckles this is the part of the marathon where you got to swallow your

pride and walk slow down but don't stop this week on the patreon a live

stream answering your questions the link is is right there

People Referenced

Friedrich Nietzsche