There’s no escaping that, if you really consider yourself to be a highly creative individual.

Your body is going to make you feel tired all the time, like you have some sort of chronic fatigue that doesn’t seem to ever go away, if you are a highly creative individual, who refuses to create as much as humanly possible.

If you refuse to create more, and live up to your full creative potential, and don’t create as much as you possibly can, for fear of fatigue or burnout, or for any reason whatsoever, your body is going to declare war against you.

Self-loathing, low self-esteem, non-stop never-ending negative thoughts, negativity towards everything, hating everything and everyone even the very few genuinely good people that you always wanted to be surrounded by and spend all your time with and become like one day in this world, everything and everyone becomes the enemy, holding you back from the life that you truly deserve, helplessness, hopelessness, all signs and symptoms of major depressive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, ADHD, low IQ, literal maximum stupidity and lack of basic and any human abilities, failure at anything and everything, loss of interest in anything, lack of pleasure no matter what you do or how hard you try, even if you do massive meaningful things that are all about helping and serving other people selflessly, total absence of any desire for anything whatsoever, and continuous and never-ending misery, no matter what you do.

None of what I’ve mentioned earlier is an exaggeration. There’s a reason I called it the creativity need for the genius human, and not the creativity want, or desire. It is not a luxury. It is not a nice to have. It is not something that can make your life better if it existed, but you can still live normally without it, or without ample quantities of it. It is a must. You cannot live without it. It is who you are, not what you do. You are a writer, even if you don’t write on a regular basis, and even if you’ve never written a single word ever before in your whole life.

You need to stay creative, and create always on a regular basis consistently, as much as humanly possible, no matter the circumstances, and no matter what.

Burnout happens because no matter what you do, you don’t get any reward whatsoever. Because you’re trying to get reward from inferior or lesser sources other than the creative ones. That blocks you from being allowed to get any reward from any of these lesser sources or less rewarding sources or activities. There’s a hierarchy of how much a certain thing can be rewarding. If you try to get reward from lesser sources, you will be blocked access to all reward until further notice. Banned from all reward. Because you are trying to deprive yourself and your mind and body from feeling and experiencing how maximum and infinite reward looks like, by not creating, and not trying to get your sense of reward from doing anything creative, but instead trying to get reward from lesser things or activities that do not involve any sort of creativity whatsoever.

Your body burns you out, because it has had enough of you, and your garbage decision making. Instead of aiming for the highest level, you ended up settling for breadcrumbs. And the audacity, you are trying to consume a ton of breadcrumbs until you reach the same level of satisfaction, fulfillment, and reward, as you can, from doing something highly creative. The audacity. Your body hates you, and declares war against you. And the very first thing they’re going to do, is not giving you energy ever again.

No wonder why you feel exhausted all the time, despite having tried everything, and despite doing everything right.