How to deal with burn out

[Basman]

Burn out is such a powerful force. It can take years to get over. I know Leo has been dealing with his own burn out, so I'm sure there's insight to be had. It's such a universal and often frustrating experience, because often what we're burnt out over is important to us in someway. 

[Yimpa]

Reminds me of this Leo quote:

18 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

When your house burns down in a fire, we'll see how much your smarts stop your suffering.

Suffering is way too potent to care about your smarts.

Do not underestimate how deep suffering goes. You cannot outsmart suffering.

 

[LordFall]

I watched an Alex Hormozi podcast and he talks about burnout being about your reward cycle being out of whack. Meaning that you're not feeling rewarded by the actions you're taking anymore, perhaps it's because the rewards are too far off and you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel anymore or you're habituated to the reward you were giving yourself and need to switch it up.

I can relate to it because I have such big goals and it's taking decades to get there but learning to find the Ws regularly helps me. I'm a big fan of women so I use them as my muse for a lot of my work so having just moved to Montreal there are so many beautiful ones it's inspiring. My money situation is not to the point where I can date comfortably at the moment so it's frustrating but I'm finding ways to find rewards outside of that. It's really hot here so I get a lot of enjoyment out of my daily mcdonalds $1.50 iced coffee. 

Hopefully that somewhat helps. 

@Yimpa I agree that there seems to be a lot of suffering baked into life. A lot of problems and suffering seems to be self-inflicted though. Someone posted a good thread in the general section with an an Orion Tariban video on true intelligence being able to solve problems. I've been reflecting on that a lot since I think of myself as smart but I run into very predictable problems often times so perhaps I'm not as clever as I think I am! I get a lot of peace from suffering from knowing a lot of it is in my control and can be avoided if I manage to learn from mistakes and plan better next time. 

 

Edited 8 hours ago by LordFall