7 years on the hamster wheel
Camila Mendes shot Riverdale for 7 consecutive years, 10 months per year, with only 2-month gaps between seasons, leaving no time to stop or rest.
Snapshot · On Purpose with Jay Shetty
CAMILA MENDES: "Perfectionism Was Ruining My Life"
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Jul 27, 2026
Where this was said
The Importance of Learning Your Limits
At 8:36 · chapter starts 7:24
Jay asks how Camila learned to give herself permission to rest when momentum feels like oxygen. She's honest: she didn't choose to stop; she had to hit a rock bottom. Seven years on Riverdale, ten months a year, left no space for anything outside work. She reflects that for people addicted to feeding off momentum, you might simply never stop unless something forces you to. She now trusts that her talent and work ethic mean opportunities will still be there when she resurfaces; longevity matters more than uninterrupted hustle. Jay illustrates this with the classic woodcutter parable — a worker cuts 20 trees the first week, 10 the second, and zero the third, because he never sharpened his saw. It's a clean metaphor for blunted energy: working harder on the same depleted resource yields less and less.
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