This type of fatigue is usually caused by selfishness and excessive thinking about yourself.
Also, if you are motivated entirely by making money and are not inspired by what you are doing, this could be a cause.
Find out why you're doing what you're doing, reaffirm it, and it will inspire you again. Stop sulking. A physical break is not going to help if you don't sort yourself out mentally.
You could have worded your post much better than you did.
> This type of fatigue is usually caused by selfishness and excessive thinking about yourself.
"There's evidence to show that patterns of negative thinking, about yourself or about the situation you're in, can cause depression".
> Stop sulking.
I can't rewrite this and keep any kind of meaning. Maybe "Use Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to learn to stop negative thoughts, and create positive thoughts".
Care to explain how the OP can avoid further "selfishness and excessive thinking" while he's "finding out why he's doing what he's doing, reaffirming it, and getting inspired again?"
Not only is there no medical basis for this kind of comment, it doesn't make sense. Exhaustion and fatigue are not a character defect. The numerous other comments here from entrepreneurs and developers should attest to that.
I take 4:20 breaks and try not to work on weekends but I'm still tired at times. I'm the founder of a startup that's about 10 months old and have to do most the work myself. Sales are so low I'm on welfare and I'm angry about that. I resent anybody who hasn't bought my company's merchandise. I can't afford the gas to go anywhere outside town much less the other costs of going on a trip to get away for a while. Any more genius ideas? Excessive talking about misdiagnosed selfishness doesn't count as an idea! The person who commented that doesn't know squat about psychology and needs a shrink.
I don't suffer from lack of inspiration. I have tons of ideas. I'm exhausted from working full time for so little reward.
I need financial incentive to keep going and to pay the bills; i.e., you buying merchandise!
This type of fatigue is usually caused by selfishness and excessive thinking about yourself
Why do you think this is true?
You might be totally right, but it would be a more subliminal egoism, like feeling like a victim and being excessively defensive. I don't think most people will understand why being tired and selfishness are linked. Curious to why you make this causality / correlation.
I'm sorry that this post is so long, but to explain anything worth explaining usually takes some time.
First, we can be clear that the type of fatigue the OP is posting about is not physical. It is not the type of fatigue that you feel after physical exertion. Rather, he is talking about a mental phenomenon.
Now, if it is possible for you (and all the other readers of this post) to conceive that the current "accepted paradigm" for mental health is just that -- a paradigm, but not an absolute truth. There is a model of the world which sees the world as having no intrinsic meaning/effect separate from the subjective superimposition upon it which occur in thought. It is called "Vedanta" and I have been studying it intensely for three years. No, you don't get a degree out of it, but it is a 'subjective science' of sorts that lays down subjective laws (as a scientist would) and encourages you to verify or disprove them by repeating the same experiments (as a scientist would), subjectively.
There's a comment above that deplores me for not wording my OP better. No doubt, I said what I said without justification. But careful analysis of his own comments would reveal that he is merely using rhetoric to lend strength to arguments, not reasoning. By posting like s/he suggests, you are just leaning on a current paradigm and gross generalisation.
Vedanta defines three aspects to the human personality:
- a physical aspect (body)
- an indiscriminate, emotional aspect (mind)
- a discriminate, rational aspect (intellect)
Accordingly the arrogation of these aspects to "I" results in the creation of the individuality and the appearance of ego. "I" is essentially unconditioned and free (absolute existence, knowledge and bliss -- the thought is similar to Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" in that there can be no experience without the presence of "I") which becomes limited, conditioned by the body (perceptions), mind (emotions) and thought (rational intellect).
It's useful to note that the "I" itself may become identified with _any_ object of consciousness, given enough repetition in thought. This _fact_ is demonstrated by the current proliferation of repetitive advertising and brand awareness. In fact, desire is defined in Vedanta as indiscriminate thought flow towards an object or being which results in mental agitation. Happiness, then, is merely the cessation of said agitation by contact with object/being.
Thus, if you limit your thoughts to yourself, the circle you are binding yourself to is very small. The causes and conditions required for your happiness are extremely specific because "this is what makes me happy" falls in a very small subset of the world. You become dependent upon this subset for your happiness, and the world, being changing, cannot always oblige. The whole range of emotion springs from this: the world cannot always cater to _ME_. This is selfishness.
If, however, you utilise the intellect to entertain higher values (I am doing this to improve my community/country/all humanity) then you have expanded your sense of "I" and the causes and conditions for your happiness fall in a larger subset of the world. Consequence: you are happier.
Children never "burn-out" (but are full of energy!) because they are not constantly thinking about themselves. In adults, there is more emphasis on "I" and "me". This burn out is caused by thoughts moving to the past ("OMG I FAILED") or the future ("I GOT TO GET THIS GOT TO GET THIS"). Vedanta recommends:
1) Plan your course of action thoroughly, considering both the past and the future
2) Dive into action, and _while acting, engage the intellect to hold the mind on the present action_, which, co-incidentally is the definition of concentration.
This post was rushed, again. But if anyone is interested in elaboration I'm always available :)
It may surprise you to read this, but I genuinely appreciate your extended remarks and context. I've been thinking about these ideas, and find it interesting now that I understand you were coming from a philosophical place and not merely an "oh, just suck it up" one to a complete stranger.
Also, if you are motivated entirely by making money and are not inspired by what you are doing, this could be a cause.
Find out why you're doing what you're doing, reaffirm it, and it will inspire you again. Stop sulking. A physical break is not going to help if you don't sort yourself out mentally.
I know it's hard to swallow, but try it.