> it's important to keep working hard right up until this point As a pretty hard worker who is very far from workaholic, I strongly disagree. Work hard. It's s

> it's important to keep working hard right up until this point As a pretty hard worker who is very far from workaholic, I strongly disagree. Work hard. It's super important. Put the time in or else you won't progress. But you don't need to go right up to the edge. If you put in solid work reliably for years, other factors will matter so much more than whether you go right up until that point.