In this video I sit down with Kelly Liu and we just get honest about burnout—what it feels like when you wake up thinking “maybe today is the day,” and then you’re right back to hating everything and everyone. We talk about whether burnout is about pure workload or the specific kind of work you’re doing, and how for some of us it’s tied to life events, boredom, and that ADHD-ish need to rotate between different interests so you don’t get trapped doing one thing for too long. I also nerd out for a second on the mechanics of burnout: it hits harder when things feel unfair, and when the “reward” you thought you were getting from an activity changes—like you were doing it for a community or a relationship and then that reason disappears. We get into comparison (because in creative fields you can’t fully avoid it), why creators burn out differently than people with tightly defined jobs, and what “balance” looks like when your default mode is going from zero to a billion and back. For me, the real pressure release valve is training—Muay Thai turns the volume down on the neurosis of making videos and being perceived, and I’ll take physical fatigue over creative burnout any day.