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Ryan Daniel Moran argues that grinding yourself into burnout doesn't work. He uses Gary Vaynerchuk as an example and says the real move is building work that actually energizes you, not forcing yourself through things you hate.
Ryan Daniel Moran argues that grinding yourself into burnout doesn't work. He uses Gary Vaynerchuk as an example and says the real move is building work that actually energizes you, not forcing yourself through things you hate.
Is hustle everything that it's cracked up to be? We talk so much about hustle and grind and working your face off in order to get somewhere, in order to reach some idea, some result that we don't really define what it is. And here's the truth about hustle. The word hustle, or the word grind assumes that you are forcing yourself. You are actually using motivation, you are using your own internal strength to get yourself to force yourself to will yourself to do something that you don't want to do, because you perceive what is on the other end to be better or worth it in the end. And when we have a clear result, sometimes that can be really helpful in order to get momentum, in order to get on track. Motivating ourselves to do something that we don't want to do, it can give us the push that we need. But in this world of Instagram likes and in this world of video shares, we have glorified this idea of what someone else has. And then we force ourselves to grind in order to get that thing. And then when we get it, we don't even enjoy it because we are hustling to get something else. We have played this game. We have tricked our brains into thinking that success, what success looks like, is a constant grind and a constant hustle, a constant forcing of our ourselves against our will to do something that we don't want to do. But the reason we got into it in the first place was to enjoy our lives, was to do something that we actually enjoyed or were passionate about. A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a day with Gary Vaynerchuk. He came and spoke at one of our events, which is called the Capitalism Conference. And the thing that struck me about Gary, who kind of pioneered this idea of hustle in our entrepreneurial world, was that he was so incredibly present when he was speaking, he was only speaking. When he was with an individual, he was only with an individual. He was just as present on stage or with people as I imagine he probably is with his kids. And what that means is when you are completely immersed in the moment, it's just as energizing, it is just as true charging as if you were at dinner with people that you love or you are doing something that you are passionate about. You can be incredibly present and milk every moment for what it is worth. No matter if you are sitting in an airport or you are playing golf or you are on the beach, or you are with people that you love. And when you are immersed in that moment.
It doesn't feel like hustle. It doesn't have to be a grind.
So what I'd like for you to consider is that if you have to motivate yourself to do something that you don't want to do, we have missed the point of what hustle or what grinding is. That is a fast way to die young. It is a fast way to burn out. It's a fast way for you to sabotage what it is that you are building in the fast first place. But if you can immerse yourself in every part of the journey, if you can build a life that actually charges you, then you can achieve the result without having to trade your energy for it, without ever having to hustle or to grind. And that is when you are successful. But more importantly, that is is when you are free.
