I probably should have worded that better. The elite athletes and professional researchers - sure that happens. I guess I'm trying to say - if it's not your ca

I probably should have worded that better. The elite athletes and professional researchers - sure that happens. I guess I'm trying to say - if it's not your career - if you spent 7+ hours per week training for your physical body, practicing your sport or doing research nobody would say anything about it. So and so is fit and exercises a lot. They look good, that's their jam. So and so is researching a lot or working on a really hard problem. Nice. Good for them. You work harder than the average on your brain and/or business - "you work too much" I'm not sure why people can't differentiate that for many: 1) going above and beyond is necessary to level up (especially to make your business a success) 2) people can find that process enjoyable and rewarding (especially if they do it with people they like) I think the self-employed specifically get a bad rap about "working too much". I'm sure there are some fortunate souls, but I don't know any business owners that clocked in and clocked out average work weeks to success. Although I agree that there's a workaholic problem for many as they scale the ladder or consume themselves with work to avoid some other issue in their life. I just don't like the notion that if you work more than the average Joe you don't have a work/life balance or it will cause all these issues. Just pulled this up and its worse than I would have guessed - "Only 15% of workers are engaged at their job". This is globally. In the US it's 30% engaged [1] That's pretty telling to me then. If you aren't engaged at your job - you will think 7 more hours a week is a bad idea and a workaholic. And probably make yourself feel better about using those 7 hours for your hobby or whatever is not your "engaged job" [1] https://news.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/212045/world-broken-workplace.aspx?g_source=position1&g_medium=related&g_campaign=tiles https://news.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/212045/world-broken...