Hard work doesn’t pay
40 hours is all it takes to be productive
Is hard work is key to success? Do most productive people work more than common people? Do they sleep less than common people? Jason Fried thinks that working for more than 40 hours doesn’t help.
Workaholic attitude causes stress, interruption, sleep deprivation and frazzle. It’s leads to low quality work. Garbage in, garbage out. Mailchimp was a side project for 6 years. To-Doist was a side project for 4 years. Basecamp took 2 years, before it started paying salaries to its employees.
David, founder of Basecamp writes, “40 hours of work every week is a king’s keep. I contend that almost anything can be accomplished with such a glorious budget. But not if you squander it on meetings, multitasking, or poorly defined problems. There’s no limit to the amount of time that can be wasted like that.”
He offers four questions to help increase to increase the quality of work-hour. One, do I really need to be involved in this? Two, could this wait? Three, Can I bail on this? Four, am I ready for this? By avoiding the falling apart from exhaustion, one can keep working on things for decades.
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