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I... hate how people re-package the anti-intellectual culture around sports. "Give 110%" - It's all about effort. I mean, for some things? that's great.

by lsc 13y ago

I... hate how people re-package the anti-intellectual culture around sports. "Give 110%" - It's all about effort. I mean, for some things? that's great. It's annoying even in sports, if you ask me, but it's effective there, and hey, that's what matters, right? But for technical work? the "give 110%" attitude is extremely destructive. Extremely destructive. you will get far more done working a 30 hour week than you will a 70 hour week. Far more. It's not about how many hours you put in. It's not about Tony Robbins style emotional bullshit. We aren't bodybuilders, and while many people here /are/ sales (and like I said, for them, face time matters) technical people aren't sales.

leoc 13y ago
... Well. To begin with, the reason Schwarzenegger was up and in the gym at seven in the morning was so that he could train—with massive intensity, yes—for maybe two hours ... and then spend eight to ten hours relaxing and doing nothing strenuous in order to recover in time for his second and final session in the evening. That's what he did six days a week with Sundays off, a routine that makes G.H. Hardy's schedule with its afternoon cricket http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hardy.html http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hardy.html look packed, and comes to probably significantly less than 30 hours of iron-pumping a week. Keeping your schedule clear for months on end to focus on your work while not actually working all that many hours a week? Sounds more similar to technical work than sales to me.