Let's talk about working on Auto-pilot

This one’s gonna be short but super important.

A few days back, I was mentally drained. Like, completely wiped out. I’ve been grinding non-stop since Jan 1st (on a 3-month grind phase), working day and night to hit $10K per month with my agency.

But that’s not what this newsletter is about.

I was exhausted but still pushing through, taking breaks to recharge. The one thing I really didn’t want to do was editing.

And of course, that’s exactly what landed on my plate (my luck lol)

My team was already occupied with a lot of editing work, and we had an urgent project for a client. I tried outsourcing it, but no one felt confident enough to match the style we needed.

So, It was all on me.

I sat down at 12 PM and completed the vide by 6 AM. One full vlog. One all-nighter.

I somehow pushed through and got it done. But after finishing, I lay in bed thinking,”How the hell did I even pull that off?”

And then I remembered something.

I remembered this scene from Hajime no Ippo Season 2.

Takamura (the beast) was preparing for his first world championship match, but he had to cut 20kg to qualify. After his weight cut, he was completely drained - dehydrated, starving, nowhere near his best condition.

And his opponent was A 7-time defending champ.

Takamura gets knocked down. Once. Twice. Dude was unconscious, but somehow, he kept throwing punches—faster, sharper, more precise.

but how man?

Because his training took over.

He had thrown so many jabs, drilled so many techniques, that even when his body was dead, it knew what to do.

That’s exactly what happened with me.

I’ve edited thousands of videos. I’ve trained myself so much that even when my brain was fried, somewhere in there it knew what to do.

I wasn’t pushing myself. I was on autopilot without thinking much consciously about the next frame or storyline, following the framework I had built over the last 3–4 years.

And that’s the real takeaway here:

If you’ve trained yourself enough, nothing can stop you—not exhaustion, not emotions, not even a mental breakdown.

So, keep training and pushing yourself, everything you do pays off one way or another, you just need eyes to see it.

Like the famous quote:

"Sweat more in training so you bleed less in war."

Cheers from my Mancave,

Mradul Sharma