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Never Start Over AgainAuthor: by Rickard Long
Most people don't fail because they don't start. They fail because they restart too often. Never Start Over Again is a weekly Monday podcast hosted by Rickard Long coach, entrepreneur, and founder of Escapist CrossFit in Berlin. Each episode is built for one moment: the start of your week. Not to motivate you. Not to lecture you. To shift something before you sit down. Every episode brings together three things: a story from history you probably haven't heard the right way, an idea from the world of business, science, or human behaviour, and one honest observation from the work of actually Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Why You Are Tired Before You Even Start
Sunday, 27 September, 2026
Part 2 of the Berlin Professionals & Health series. You finish work. You planned to train. And then something happens, the energy is gone, the motivation has evaporated, and you tell yourself you will go tomorrow. Tomorrow becomes next week. Next week becomes next month. This is not a discipline problem. Here is what is actually happening. By the end of a full working day, research suggests the average person has processed approximately 35,000 small decisions. Most of them are trivial. But collectively they deplete the same cognitive resource that self-control and long-term decision-making draw from. By 6pm, the part of your brain responsible for making good decisions, the prefrontal cortex, is running on empty. Going to the gym is a large, complex, effortful decision. It is exactly the kind of decision a depleted brain refuses to make. This is why Berlin is particularly dangerous for this pattern. Berliners actually work fewer hours per week than most other German cities. And yet Berlin has among the highest burnout rates and most sick days in the country. The problem is not total hours. It is structure or the absence of it. Everything gets pushed to the end of the day. Work ends late. Restaurants open late. Social commitments happen late. And the training that was planned for "after work" gets absorbed by all of it. Plus: the history no one talks about, how the divided city may have permanently shaped Berlin's relationship with tomorrow. The one alarm clock that actually solves the morning problem. And why asking for help is not a weakness, it is the fastest route to change.
