How do creators keep going without burning out?

Creator fatigue, quitting, upload pressure, enjoying the process.

Axis: under-optimise and keep it fun … push the upload schedule

Answers by date: 4 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice was refined (2019, 2020), never reversed, in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied)	Ali	About 80% of the time his work feels more like play than work to Ali; without enjoying it, he says, he could not have kept up his consistency and output.	How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber 00:17:45
2020-11-15	Ali	Ali has recently taken up the philosophy of doing the work so you can keep doing it: YouTube is an infinite game with no end goal, and he wants to keep playing because it is fun, profitable and helps people.	How I Gained 1 MILLION Subscribers 00:24:26
2019-02-14	Ali	Ali thinks a big reason YouTubers burn out is trying too hard to please the audience; he focuses on making the videos he wants to make, as long as they are good.	Valentine’s Day Live Stream 00:31:05
2019-02-11	Ali	Ali says a lot of burnout among entrepreneurs, YouTubers and bloggers comes from working too hard to grow the numbers and the audience, and recommends Anything You Want to anyone stuck in that position.	3 Books that Changed my Life 00:11:20

Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).