Why You Shouldn't Be A Slave to a 40 Hour Work Week | My First Million  

Do you work in a creative field? Because I do (i.e., software/programming) and I completely agree with what he said there. Humans evolved doing physical work, so the work done during the industrial age (i.e., when the work schedule was established) was easier to stomach. Humans did not evolve to stare at screens, re-factor/debug old code, and write new code for 8 hours a day non-stop which is why burnout in the tech field is so common. Also, even grunt work requires mental capital. Maybe it's different in filmmaking and songwriting, but with hardcore technical fields what he said there was spot on in my opinion.

@@gokublack4832 Perhaps I've miscommunicated a bit, so I apologize for that. My comment is mostly in response to the tweet at 0:41. Basically that a work week, as a general concept, is not against our nature. Some/most people(very understandably) just don't like work, and think because it's difficult that we're not mean to do it. However, none of that changes the fact that work is definitely in our nature. Then there's also the bit that came *after* I said "the idea that rote work is no longer necessary... ignores everything about... Producing output". That last paragraph is the only portion that was meant primarily in response to Shaan. His claim was approximately that most of the productivity happens in a condensed window, "there's an hour of the day that is more productive than all the rest combined". Which I 100% agree with. The point of my response to Shaan is that, having also personally worked as a creative in a hand full of roles, noone gets to that hour of peak productivity without spending many many many many hours grinding away at it. I'm willing to admit that there may be some better ways out there. However, it has always seemed to me that this golden hour of productivity rarely comes at beginning, and is almost invariably at the middle/end of some long day(sometimes weeks) of just banging your head against the same problem over and over again. And I've yet to see anyone get to the golden hour without putting in a lot of seemingly pointless work prior. I'm not opposed to the idea of a more fluid/ad-hoc work day where the schedule is structured less strictly, but the idea that similar productivity will come without some consistent and grueling scheduled work period seems to be out of line with reason and experience. Did I respond to your idea or was I just stoking my own fire here? Edit: Typos *P.S.* Also, I'm not one of these people that necessarily believes that everyone of our grandparents and great grandparents were so much tougher than us. But I do believe there is some sort of generational relationship with burnout. Modern day farm and trade workers are considerably more likely to burn out than our grandparents were. It's possibly a survival thing. If we're farmers in 1905 and we stop working, our families starve and wither when winter comes. Today, if we quit or are fired from a manual Labor or trade job we're entitled to unemployment, a severance package, and workers comp in some cases. Will someone be comfortable on entitlements? *ABSOLUTELY NOT*, quite the opposite. But (without accounting for savings) you'd have enough resources to continue to exist and many people are okay with that. Thus injury claims in these fields are several times higher today than a century ago despite the work being several times safer and easier. It would stand to reason that higher earning jobs with even less of immediate survival incentive, such as in creative fields, would be more likely to burnout. I don't know that the nature of the work has anything to do with it?. Edit: Postscript added

agreed

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@@shaanpuri5111 hahahaha I did this ironically but since I got you here, how can I help you and Sam develop a tokenized club that you spoke of, combine that with the idea Sam had to turn trends into a startup investment community, a AngelList type club with tokenized membership

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@@StartingFromZeroPod Yeah Dude but mindset is not enough! They don't talk about the failure, hardwork, time, self-doubts, family pressure, family responsibilities that leave you very little time, your own health issues and the list goes on. They don't talk about how they dealt with all of the problems they faced. They all had days jobs for the longest time and they build their empire on the side. When they talk about it, it appears that they say, starting a newsletter, for example, is just a breeze