Mark Rober

You're going to get rewarded.

And there was probably some bunnies in the population who...

had that dopamine last for like three weeks, just being like resting on the laurels of this sick mood.

I'm the fucking LeBron James.

I'm the LeBron James, just sitting back, relaxing, thinking about that immediately.

Those genes are removed from the gene pool because they bast in that.

So there's this like sweet spot of like, I'm going to make you feel good about this, but then I'm going to make it go away.

So you want to try again.

And I think that's a mistake people make with burnout is,

is like it's kind of like running on a treadmill.

When you get on the treadmill, it's exciting.

You're getting those reward chemicals.

This is really fun.

And what happens eventually, though, is like those reward chemicals subside, but you're still sprinting because you crank this treadmill because you could because it's exciting.

And I think burnout is when, you know, you're still putting in the same input, but you're not getting –

the reward chemicals for it.

And so one thing I really try and do is like keep my treadmill at like a jogging pace.

Like I can do this.

There was a time in the YouTube algorithm where like they wanted if you did daily vlogs, that was like what you need to do to be successful.

And I was like, I can't do that.