There are several ways to regenerate your energy. You need all of them combined, or else you’ll feel tired all the time, no matter what you do. The answer, even when it comes to regenerating your energy, is to do more, not less. Your obsession with quality is what’s depriving you of the benefits of quantity when it comes to everything you are consumed by thinking there’s a quantity versus quality debate concerning it.

In order to be able to consistently produce or create high quality content, you have to consume ten times more than what you create.

What you consume does not have to be related to what you produce or create or talk about in your content at all. What I want you to understand is that no amount of rest or sleep will make up for that. You have to expose your neurons to something new, and do that for a very long time, before you can create again. Even lying in bed for a whole month or year cannot compete with that.

Virtually all your burnout from content creation or working on your business is coming from that. Not only do you need to create content until fatigued, but you also need to consume content or stuff until fatigued, or else you’ll feel exhausted all the time and your burnout will never go away.

That’s why I classified recovery into two categories, the resting need, and the regeneration need, both of which do not include and are aside from and totally distinct from sleep. It is an abomination to find that expert advice on burnout is all about either sleep more or work less. Both are not enough, even if they are to run ad infinitum.