Mental exhaustion from constant rumination drains your energy even without physical activity. The speaker links mental fatigue to lethargy and low motivation, then offers a fix: reduce your mental load, drop expectations, and tell yourself "I am doing my best; I will do what I have to do."
Have you ever wondered why you feel exhausted all the time? You know, even when you've not done anything the entire day, you're feeling mentally drained out. You feel tired, you feel lethargic, you feel like you don't want to do anything. You get days like that. Do you know why? That's because exhaustion— more than physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion happens when you're mentally overloaded. You may not be doing anything physically, but mentally you're thinking of your to-do list, you're thinking of all thinking of all the things you want to do, you're thinking of all the problems that you have, you're constantly increasing your mental load and you're feeling mentally exhausted, which then shows in your physical body. So to really, really feel fresh and energetic, take out your mental exhaustion, take out the expectations you have from others and the expectations that others have from you. Tell yourself, I am doing my best. What I have to do, I will do.
