Joe Fier argues burnout comes from lack of visible progress, not hard work itself. A podcaster publishing since 2004 with audiences stuck at 50-150 listeners shows how stalled growth, not effort, drains you.
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Burnout doesn't come from working hard. It comes from not seeing an end in sight or not believing that you're going to get a payoff for all this hard work that you're putting in. So when I see podcasters who are burnt out, it's usually because they have no growth. They have no. Like they have. They're in the friends and family zone. They're at 50 to 150 every episode and they've been publishing episodes for four. I even had someone I worked with who was has publishing podcasts since 2004, which is the earliest that you can possibly. Because that's when it was invented. Yeah. Still very few, like super passionate about the medium, obviously. Still no listeners. He said, I'm feeling burnt out. I'm like, I can't believe you're still here. Kudos to you 20 years later. Right? 20 years later. But again, the burnout comes from doing the thing and not getting a reward over and over and over and over again.