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It doesn’t matter how many hours you work

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There is this idea in our culture that you must work a lot. Unless you’re working a lot and it’s gruesome, you can’t succeed. This ends up with people trying to one-up each other - treating working long hours as a badge of honor. Showing off how much they work, telling everyone how they suffer. The thing is, how much you work doesn’t matter. Things that do matter: What you produce, how it makes you better, how it influences the world. Yes, long hours can be necessary to produce good things but long hours don’t mean anything on their own. There’s no supervisor tracking how long you’ve been working on something. If you want to act on inspiration and strike the iron while it’s hot, working extra hours right now might be the right move. However, working a lot is often a form of ego protection in case you fail. “I worked so much and I failed, I couldn’t do much more.” But the quality of the work you put in matters more than the quantity. Now, what usually leads to better quality work? Hard

It doesn’t matter how many hours you work There is this idea in our culture that you must work a lot. Unless you’re working a lot and it’s gruesome, you can’t succeed. This ends up with people trying to one-up each other - treating working long hours as a badge of honor. Showing off how much they work, telling everyone how they suffer. The thing is, how much you work doesn’t matter. Things that do matter: What you produce, how it makes you better, how it influences the world. Yes, long hours can be necessary to produce good things but long hours don’t mean anything on their own. There’s no sup

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