This is and PR is life kit.

Rahaf Havush had a creative right that changed everything for her.

The short story is that I got burned out and it completely forced me to re-examine everything I

thought I knew about productivity out of necessity. It was like beyond self-optimization right into

if I keep working this way I'm going to die. At one point Rahaf was someone who was all about

pushing through and hustling hard but eventually she realized it wasn't sustainable. In fact,

she came to the realization that this mindset of muscle culture was actively suppressing her

creativity forcing her into a creative rut and it was devastating. I really understand the pain

of not having your creative voice speak to you. We should just take a second and actually acknowledge

how awful that is because in a society where our sense of self-worth is so tied to our

professional work and I experienced this myself as a writer, nothing broke my heart more when I had

my burnout, not my failing health, not my hair falling out, not my weight gain, not my insomnia.

None of that broke my heart more than realizing that the voice that used to

speak in my head and give me ideas what's silent. Rahaf is a digital anthropologist and the author

of Hustle and Float, a book about reclaiming your creativity and a world obsessed with work.

Her work focuses on reminding people that sure you can hustle hard but it only works if you take

breaks and recharge, aka float. Without these floats, she says it's really easy to feel like you're

never going to have a creative idea again. And what Rahaf said about the pain of not being able to

connect with your creative voice, I felt that. My name is Fiona Bethross, I'm a producer and writer

and over the past year in some change, I've been navigating one of the worst creative

rats of my life. I kept trying to push through it but it wasn't working, I felt like a failure,

like I should be easily able to connect with my creative voice and I was feeling incredibly sad

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