Stop Working So Hard. It Keeps You Poor

Marcus Tan
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5 min readApr 3, 2022

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Looking at hard work from a whole new perspective

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You probably would have heard of the age-old saying work hard so that you reap the fruits of your rewards. This is true to an extent. However, let’s look at just working hard in itself from a completely new perspective.

According to Our World in Data you get to see the correlation between countries like Cambodia working very long hours but having lower GDP per capita compared to Germany which has a much higher GDP per capita but is working much fewer hours.

Source: Our World in Data

What about the hustle culture?

Source: VeeFriends | Gary Vaynerchuk

What about hustling to achieve your goals?

You often see these Instagram and Facebook posts promoting the hustle culture as you scroll through your phone. If you are familiar with Gary Vaynerchuk you will probably be familiar with his motivational message of hustling and just doing the work. Shut out the world, close the door and just hustle at your desk.

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