Working Harder Is Stupid. Steal This Blueprint to Get More Free Time and Work Less.
Best tip: Quit fake work.
As our boss pushed his head harder into the pavement, he worked harder.
That’s all he knew how to do.
I worked with him for two years. Every crisis led him to work harder. Pretty soon, as things got rough, he’d worked seven days a week. From 7 am all the way through to bedtime.
He hardly saw his family. His kids became a distant memory. When he finally missed a family holiday to the beach, his wife had enough.
She cracked it.
“No more working hard. It solves nothing. Time for you to get a new job.”
Working harder gets you nowhere. If you can relate, try these things instead.
Quit fake work
Working harder is a bear trap. It’s one I’ve stepped on plenty of times.
A lot of what looks like working harder is simply fake work. Work that looks like work but isn’t. Fake work helps hide the real problems that haven’t got solved.
Meetings, emails, hallway gossip, Slack chats — can all become fake work. The way to expose fake work is to look at your list of priorities.
