Great Article! There’s more to why this is becoming a trend among young founders. One of the reasons is that many of us, millennials, began playing the game after 2008 when the world economy was already destroyed forcing all of us into an extremely supercompetitive world where wealth was in fewer hands and where we must study for too many years for small amounts of money (http://bit.ly/2MesYbK | http://bit.ly/2MYiyBW). As a result, we’ve been FORCED to work harder for less money which impacts our ability to enjoy some free time. However this is completely unsustainable, to people and companies because it’s like living in slave mode and no one can survive that lifestyle. Marketers, for instance, are starting to consider quitting the industry for good just for the sake of their health (http://bit.ly/2wV7PNS). That’s today’s marketplace.
And another important point is just as mentioned by the article, the entrepreneurial culture, where working as hard as possible is the “unbreakable rule” regardless of how your life is getting affected by it or how your results are going. To be honest, you do have to work freaking hard — especially nowadays — but that needs to be in a good dosage. If you don’t work on something that matters, you feel useless. If you work too much, you feel that there’s no meaning in living, and working becomes the cause of your unhappiness.
We should work so we can enjoy more time with our families, friends, animals, traveling etc (and to take care of ourselves). Your business should always be a way to make you happier, not the other way around. Always. Don’t let it become the only thing in your life. Go enjoy life because that’s what truly pumps us, entrepreneurs. Living a good time. After all, you only have one shot at life.
