You’re not exhausted. You’re eroding.
And no—more sleep won’t save you.
We’ve misdiagnosed our fatigue. It’s not always about rest. Sometimes it’s about entropy.
Things fall apart when energy stops flowing. You included.
Entropy is the universal drift toward disorder.
Leave a system alone long enough, and it breaks down.
This isn’t just physics—it’s your life. Your energy. Your performance. Your purpose.
When your days lack intensity and your work lacks meaning, entropy creeps in. Quietly. Slowly. Relentlessly.
It shows up as mental fog, emotional detachment, and that hollow tiredness sleep can’t fix.
It’s not burnout. It’s decay.
Not because you’ve done too much—
—but because you’ve stopped doing what matters.
The human mind, like any system, requires energy to fight entropy.
But not just any energy—directed, meaningful, purpose-driven energy.
Scroll long enough, hide long enough, comply long enough, and entropy will do what entropy does:
Turn clarity into noise.
Vitality into fatigue.
Potential into dust.
Elite performers don’t just train harder.
They battle entropy by choosing deliberate tension over passive comfort.
They’re not tired because they do too much.
They’re alive because they resist the gravitational pull of “good enough.”
They aren’t avoiding stress.
They’re channeling it.
On purpose.
And that’s the difference.
Most people aren’t overworked.
They’re under-inspired.
They’re running low on intentionality, not sleep.
So what happens?
Entropy.
The longer you stay disengaged, the harder it becomes to engage.
The longer you avoid meaningful effort, the more resistance builds against it.
The more you go through the motions, the more the motions go through you.
Ask yourself:
Are you tired—or are you decaying?
Is your fatigue physical—or is it the result of entropy creeping into an unchallenged, uninspired life?
Sleep is maintenance.
Inspiration is ignition.
You want your energy back?
Find something that demands it.
Create order out of chaos.
Move toward something that excites and scares you at the same time.
Because entropy isn’t passive.
And neither is purpose.
So stop blaming rest.
Start battling entropy.
Push back. Plug in. Light up.
Because the cure for some exhaustion isn’t sleep—
—it’s fire.