It was January of 2023, a winter month when I had just passed a month of becoming a full-time member of a startup team.

Like many startup teams, we were very busy preparing for government support projects (along with MVP testing).

Around that time, I experienced a very severe burnout. When I looked back at my first Disquiet post, I mentioned feeling a sense of loss often.

Looking back, those thoughts were signs of burnout.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I was so exhausted from work that I truly felt the happiest when I was at home alone, eating while watching "Attamama" on YouTube.

I didn't feel any particular interest in the topics I was interested in or the people around me.

Then, when I saw a burnout checklist on my old mental health Instagram account, I was sure that I was experiencing burnout.

After going through this process of thought and reflecting on what was most important to me right now, I was reminded of something that Mincheol Kim, the CEO of Yanadu, had done when he failed in his business and couldn't do anything.

It was simply "brushing your teeth 3 times a day."

I thought that for me now, too, it would be good to steadily do things that would gradually bring back my routine and vitality, starting with small things.

I wanted to overcome this with people who were struggling with a sense of listlessness, like me, so I gathered people through Everytime (anonymous community) at school.

At that time, about six people contacted me saying they wanted to join, and I ended up doing the challenge with four of them who I stayed in touch with.

One person said it was difficult to participate, so we, including myself, did the "overcoming listlessness challenge" for a month (23.1.27~2.28).

(If you search for "overcoming listlessness challenge" in the search bar, you'll find various challenge topics.)

The challenge was conducted through an open chat room and Notion, and only three functions were used: registering the challenge + checking achievement status + uploading photos, all through Notion's calendar function.

Each of us set a weekly challenge every Sunday, and we would post photos and comments as we verified our progress.

(It's still so healing to look at...🍊)

Since then, I've joined the IT club "SOPT," and while thinking about what kind of IT service would be meaningful, I decided to test the business viability of the mental health-based challenge service I did in January this year.

That's it for today!!

I'll post part two, so please look forward to it! :)

(The more comments, the faster I come back, it's no secret)