Working 70 hours a week taught me something crazy about burnout

So I work around 70 hours a week, and I often get asked, how do I deal with burnout? For those that don't know, burnout is the feeling of extreme fatigue to the point you don't want to do anything. And I'm gonna explain to you how I deal with burnout from an athlete's perspective, because I've been an athlete my whole life. If I told you, hey, let's go to the gym. And we're gonna run 26 miles on a treadmill. The majority of you guys would run around 2 or 3 miles, and you'd get off the treadmill and be like, why am I doing this? And you'd probably go home. However, if I gave you the same scenario, we're gonna run 26 miles, we're gonna run with a group of people. Your friends are gonna be watching. You're gonna win a medal, and I'll throw in a bonus. I'll send you 10 grand. The majority of you guys would crawl to the finish line if you had to. Why? Because the thought of achieving that goal pushes you past the feeling of exhaustion. You need to apply that same thinking to your work life. You need a reason that wakes you up every morning and pushes you past the point of fatigue, pushes you past the feeling of burnout. I meet a lot of people who get a new job and they say things like, I'm just gonna grind. I'm just gonna stack. And the reason it never works is because you realize very quickly looking at numbers on the screen is extremely pointless if those numbers don't have any direction. You need a reason why you are actually working that hard. Maybe you wanna retire early, or you're part of the Coast Fire movement. You wanna buy your parents a home, you wanna buy your kids a car. Whatever the reason, it needs to be powerful enough to push you past the feeling of fatigue. A lot of people think the path to success is simple and it's easy, when it's more like snakes and ladders. One wrong move and you're set back 10 steps. I meet so many people who think they can just buy a crypto or start a dropshipping store and boom, millionaire. And I wish more successful people were honest about the amount of work that's actually required to reach that level of success. Because if most of you guys knew how much work was required, you wouldn't even try. So you need a reason why you are waking up every morning and pushing yourself past the point of exhaustion. That's how you deal with burnout.