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I suspect the "must work 24/7" thing is probably rooted in the fact that some folks are just like that and those folks are often crazily successful. Are they?
by EliRivers 14y ago
I suspect the "must work 24/7" thing is probably rooted in the fact that some folks are just like that and those folks are often crazily successful.
Are they? What if you just don't notice the unsuccessful ones; they're at home spending ten hours a day drawing pictures of butterflies, or they're down at the gym obsessively lifting heavy things over and over again, or any one of a number of other obsessive activities that don't bring success.
- Mz 14y agoI stand by what I said. But I would be perfectly happy to frame that as running in the other direction: That folks who are crazy successful often have this group of traits. Since we have whatever brain we have, articles often focus on the fact that they work long hours as the thing others have a hope of emulating, as if that's all that really matters. I see no reason to believe it is.