Why you need to do more, and accomplish and create more, on a consistent and regular basis, in order to avoid fatigue, exhaustion, depression, lack of motivation and sense of meaning and fulfillment, and burnout.

The answer to your perpetual state of fatigue, exhaustion, low energy, depression, lack of motivation, and burnout, is to always do more. More achievement, accomplishment, progress, and productivity. More work, more outcome, more things done per day, week, month, year, decade, according to what’s meaningful and fulfilling to you, according to your standards, core values, what matters to you, and what’s most important to you. According to what’s most rewarding to you, and gives you the most and highest sense of accomplishment, achievement, reward, fulfillment, satisfaction, success, and happiness. That is what you need to do more of, to accomplish more of, in order to avoid burnout. Not doing less, to save your energy, and spend it wisely.

Doing less, will actually lead to more burnout in the long-term, because you will never have enough Dopamine.

Not having enough Dopamine means everything will be way more difficult to do.

Everything will feel like moving mountains. Even the simplest of tasks.

Everything will be too mentally and physically exhausting to do, no matter how easy or simple the task is.

And then you will find that you will be spending way too much energy, just to get the least amount of tasks or things done, even though you’re doing less, or aiming for doing or accomplishing less per day, or per week.

You will literally be spending more energy, doing the same things, or on the same things.

Let me say that again.

The same task will now need more energy to get it done. You will need more energy to accomplish the same type of tasks, work, or things, compared to what you will need to do the same, in case you had more dopamine in your system, to begin with.

The same thing, will be harder, more exhausting, more demanding of focus, energy, and time, when you are running on low dopamine, or when you have low dopamine when you attempt to do them, than when you have more dopamine, serotonin, and reward, in your system, before you get started.

So you will end up spending more energy, in order to do less stuff, just because of your general decision, to start doing less in life, or to work less, in a futile attempt to avoid the inevitable burnout.

In order to avoid burnout, or exhaustion, you ended up doing the very thing that leads to burnout, which is doing less, which depletes your system of dopamine, until everything becomes too energy demanding and consuming, which leads to hitting burnout prematurely, always.

Everything suddenly feels like moving mountains. Everything now needs you to spend an endless amount of energy just to get it over with, even if it’s the easiest thing ever. Even the most simple of tasks, ever.

Doing less, will always backfire. It will lead to nothing but depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, fatigue, helplessness, hopelessness, lack of motivation, inspiration, and enthusiasm. Less energy, and apathy. Indifference. Loss of interest, and creativity. Loss of meaning of life. Cognitive decline, mental health and well-being decline. Mental fitness decline. Mental exhaustion all the time, before you even get started. Decline of intelligence and abilities over time. Less progress, less productivity, less overall life satisfaction and fulfilment. Less happiness. Less everything.

Doing less, does nothing but deplete your Energy, Dopamine, Serotonin, and Reward levels. Which will lead to depression, cognitive decline, low energy, exhaustion, major depressive disorder, and burnout, like no other.

By doing less, I’m referring to accomplishing less, in terms of what’s actually is meaningful for you. What’s actually worth it, for you, according to your core values, and what matters to you, and what’s important to you. What makes a difference, according to your standards, and what you think is true. What is actually rewarding, and feels like a major accomplishment or achievement, afterwards, for good, for you. What is true, to your most authentic self. What your highest self thinks is worthy of your time, life, health, energy, and effort, and leads to the highest sense of accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment, and satisfaction, you could ever have. According to you, your standards, and what you know is true for you.

What makes you happy, according to your definition of happiness. On your own terms. According to your own standards.

Doing more of that, is the only way out of burnout.

Nothing else works.

The prophecy, of the chosen one. And the fact that the dark side can never be destroyed. It’s an integral part of the force itself as a whole, and must always exist.

Think of balance as in stable versus unstable. Serenity. Peace. 

I sense a disturbance in the force. 

I sense great fear in you, young Skywalker. You have hate, you have anger, but you don’t use them. ~ Count Dooku

That is the very definition of unbalance of the force, with him at that time at least.

Even from an untrained Padawan you can sense that disturbance. 

Balance is the absence of disturbance that leaves the force unstable, unsettled. Like when you throw a stone at a pond. 

It has nothing to do with numbers or strength, but peace. 

There is no emotions, there is peace. 

Much to learn, you still have. 

I think by the dark side of the force Lucas always meant the force itself could be used in a dark way as in double edged weapon. Not that it’s a team that has to be balanced by the opposite team, otherwise it will be an unfair game. The force is a thing, that could be used for good, the light side of the force, and it could be used for and leads to and can magnify evil, if used another way, like the Sith use it. 

Jedi and Sith are not “taking” from the force, so when one side takes too much, they end up disrupting the balance. 

It’s the force itself that is in a state of unbalance, disturbance. As in upset, not mentally healthy and sane. This is from the view that the force is alive and has a will and feelings. Not just a physical thing that could be manipulated. 

Lucas could have said bring balance to the universe, but he kept insisting that actors say dark side “of the force” in the prequel trilogy, as opposed to just dark side like they used to say in the original trilogy, which could mean just being a bad person or evil. 

The force itself has a dark side. As in nature itself sometimes behaves as if it’s pure evil. And the Sith are using that dark side of the force itself, not the dark side of themselves, in order to become more powerful. 

The light side of the force is what the Jedi are exclusively using. That’s why it became light side of the force, as opposed to the good side only that was mentioned in the original trilogy. 

Like when Han Solo is sometimes a good person, but sometimes immoral. Same for the force. 

That’s why Luke was a good person despite using the dark side of the force sometimes. 

I do not fear the dark side as you do. ~ Anakin Skywalker 

Think of it like the ring of power Forged by Sauron, it consumes you, and turns you evil, even if it gave you nothing but power in the beginning. 

Cast into the fire. 

No. 

Destroy it! ISYLDUR!! 

The ring has it own will, own darkness. Same with the force itself. 

Wiping out the Sith does not erase the dark side of the force. It is always there, waiting to be consumed, to be used. 

The chosen one, because he is so powerful, will bring balance to the force, because he doesn’t need to move mountains in order to accomplish anything. 

That force sensitive conflict, war, erodes the will of all force users, and makes them in pain, suffering. Exhaustion. The constant pressure of war. 

That leaves the force unbalanced. Wounded. Depleted. Drained. Tired of all this. All the conflict and disturbance. 

The dark side of the force cannot be destroyed, at least without destroying the entirety of the force itself, both light and dark and everything in between.

The prophecy of the chosen one included destroying the Sith, not the dark side of the force itself.

You don’t know the power, of the dark side.

The power of the dark side of the force and using it, not the power of force sensitive beings when they become evil.

The chosen one, like Neo did, ended the war, and put an end to conflict, which restored peace, to the universe, and the force. 

What do you want? 

Peace. ~ Neo