I overdid it - on purpose

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Written By Elinor Trier

Can you deliberately overwork to buy a slower life? This 30-day experiment explores the reality of managing a creative process and chronic illness whilst 'burning hot' in order to earn a season of rest.

Is it ever worth it to deliberately push yourself beyond your capacity - knowing you might make yourself ill - just to buy an easier life later?

This month, I ran a pretty extreme experiment on myself. With a three-week summer vacation on the horizon, I decided to push myself to film as many videos as humanly possible. I wanted to build a stupidly long runway of content so I could afford to be ill or work on other projects without the constant pressure of a schedule. But as an artist living with chronic illness, pushing that hard is always a gamble.

This vlog follows the month-long push: from high-intensity filming and studio chaos to the quiet moments in Copenhagen and, of course, plenty of antics from the pudding cats.

In the end, I had to face the reality of my experiment and ask: did I actually buy myself a slower season, or did I just create a bill I couldn't afford to pay?

 

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