Everybody listens to you when you explain to them the importance of physical exercise, but everybody will hate you when you try to explain to them the importance of mental exercise.

Work exercises your brain and body like no other. Adopting a lifestyle that is totally devoid of any kind of work will definitely lead to some sort of cognitive decline sooner or later that cannot be countered by virtually any other thing that you can do to exercise your mind or brain, including reading books.

The mindset of being hyper focused on avoiding getting tired in general or because of working too much is not a mindset that can ever be considered good for you, no matter what.

You have to convince me first that physical exercise is bad for you, your health, fitness, energy, or well-being, before you can manage to convince me that excessive workloads are never good for you. You will inevitably get to a point where you find yourself becoming too impulsive for your own good when trying to force yourself to have fun, enjoy yourself, chill, relax, or just rest, when you don’t absolutely need that, just because your body is trying to prove a point. Stop holding me back. I can do better than that. I’m more capable than you think I am. You underestimate my power. I can do it, and you’re preventing me. You have been indoctrinated into believing that you should slow down and rest, because you’re expecting too much out of yourself. Who do you think you are? You think you’re better than us, is at the root of this kind of mindset. I need to prioritize rest and taking care of me. And because of that I need to rest ninety nine percent of my life, and only live up to one percent of my true potential, because your self worth shouldn’t be tied to achievement. It’s like insert your favorite totally unrelated limiting belief here sir, just to win the damn argument, just to make it look like it’s something that is designed to be good for you. If you see anyone working so hard from now on, just try to feel morally superior to them by claiming that they must be doing so because they have a very low self-esteem that makes them feel totally unworthy unless they achieve something. Makes total sense, every single time.

Holding yourself back from giving something you’re passionate about, hell even obsessed with, your all, especially when you know you can do more, or better in it, will always lead to your body protesting that arbitrary, cowardly, irrational, and weak decision through giving you endless impulsiveness, that is perfectly designed to render you helpless and out of control to the point of total non-functioning.

Repressing yourself from pursuing random impulses, desires, or pleasure is one thing, whereas suppressing yourself from following your passion or obsession to the fullest is crushing your spirit on a whole new unprecedented level. There’s nothing you can do to undo the damage that this can do to you.

If this is the case, why on earth would anyone prioritize avoidance of fatigue or burnout over pursuing your passion or obsession to the fullest or to the best of your ability? The reason you’re struggling with burnout despite following your passion or obsession is because you always quit working prematurely before you start to feel rewarded by what you’re doing, because you’re so focused on leaving before you get tired, as opposed to leaving when you feel you’ve accomplished something that you can be proud of for the rest of your life.