A short spoken segment by Chris Collins arguing that burnout often stems from pursuing goals one doesn't truly care about. He frames motivation as an intense desire ("dig through a wall" example for life-or-death goals) and places responsibility on the individual: either re-ignite passion for the work or change the exchange of value (energy vs. reward). The tone is direct and admonitory toward self-responsibility.
Who, if somebody is dying of starvation and they need food and they'll, you know, dig through a wall to get to food.
They'Re not really. They're not really thinking about their fingernails or, you know, whatever it is. They just want to accomplish the mission. Yeah. Because they. They want it so bad. So if you're burnt out, going after a goal that you don't care about, whose fault is that? That's mine. Yeah. And so I think it kind of deflects responsibility in a sense that. Listen, I'm not. I'm not a victim. If I either need to get more fired up about what it is I'm doing to the point where I'll dig through a wall to get there, or I need to recalculate my kind of my exchange of value. Right. Because it's just an exchange of energy.
