Chad Silverstein says fatigue and burnout come from working outside your unique ability, doing tasks that drain you. When you align work with what you love—your opus—you get flow and sustained energy instead. Recognize the signs, take responsibility for your choices, and shift toward work that fits your skills and passions.
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I believe that fatigue sets in when you're not within your unique ability. You're not doing what you love. You're not doing what gives you energy. You're doing what drains the energy. You know, you could do something at work for an hour, and if it's something that you dread and it's just not a skill of yours, but you have to do it, because that's your role. You can literally be just drained and have zero energy from one hour of work. Yet when you're integrated into a job where you love everything you do and you could feel your opus, you can feel that you're aligned with, like, all the responsibilities, all the tasks, all the opportunities, you get to connect with other people, and you're in that flow. You find the flow. You know, some people can do that, burn the midnight oil, they can work forever. And I've found that flow before. And for me, that's so true, which is why I'm sharing it with you in my melody line. Because you have to be able to recognize when you're drained and when you're burned out. And typically, it's when you're doing things that you don't like and you're not within your unique ability and you're not able to follow your dreams, you're not able to align your skills with whatever it is that you're responsible doing. And that's a sign that should be telling. Your body is telling you something. And there's something to be said about, you know, recognizing that you're not in the right fit, you're not doing what you love. You haven't found the alignment yet. You haven't authored your opus, and fatigue will set in. It will cause burnout. You'll just wake up one day and just had enough. Happens all the time to people. So this is why opus is such a big deal. Built to lead. Opus gives you the energy. We say labor of love because you love the labor. And the opposite is to loathe it. And you don't want a job where you loathe what you do. And if you're in one, that's not going to change. And if you're hoping it does, you're nuts. You're just delaying the inevitable. That's why we say your choice. You have a choice. Your choices have consequences. You can't be, you know, irresponsible, and you can't just quit your job and you have nothing else lined up. But that doesn't mean you can't start looking and you can't start shifting. And you can't start pivoting within your current job to aim more at. At doing things that you love. And you got to be creative. You got to find ways to make this happen for yourself, because just kind of expecting things to change is not going to happen. And fatigue is a real. It's a real thing that could burn people out, stress people out, make people sick, and it's just not where you want to live. So recognize if you're there now or not. Make sure you're doing things that keep you away from it, and be honest with yourself. If you're stuck in it, you need to get out of it.
