Beat Creative Burnout by Embracing Imperfect Work (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: So, you're burnt out. The question is, how do you get out of that funk and back into your routine? Now, this dimension of burnout is arguably the most annoying one, because it's not really about being tired or checked out, it's about the loss of self-esteem with your work and the tendency to negatively evaluate it. The biggest reason that I struggle with this is feeding into my perfectionism. I become such a harsh critic of my work, just hyper-focusing on the negatives and things I don't like about it. And there's many ways to get over perfectionism, but what really helps me the most is forcing myself to make insignificant, dumb videos. And a great example of what this looks like in practice is my Make a Video in a Day series, where I forced myself to come up with a video idea and have a finished video by the end of that same workday. It removes the pressure of analytical performance or having a perfect script, and it instead shifts the focus to finishing a video and just accepting it for what it is. It reintroduced not only the joy of the process of making a video, but really that strong sense of accomplishment and satisfaction of finishing a video.