Dylan Vanas delivers a short, first-person critique of online "hustle culture," arguing that relentless grinding and setting unrealistic goals (e.g., aiming to lose £100 in 30 days or endorsing 80–90 hour weeks) lead to burnout and disappointment. He urges replacing outlandish targets with sustainable, realistic plans and true balance tailored to one’s life.
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I'm just sick of all these hustle culture people out there telling you to work harder. See, there's all these people online saying work harder, just grind, grind, grind. But here's the truth. Grinding is not going to help you achieve your goals. It's just going to help you achieve burnout. There's phases in business where you need to work hard. I pulled many all nighters myself. But those people saying to set these outlandish goals, these crazy, unrealistic goals that are not attainable because if you shoot for that, you'll still achieve something, they're just setting you up for disappointment. What you need is a sustainable, realistic plan for the modern age to achieve what you want. Not 80 hour work weeks, 90 hour work weeks, you need something that's actually attainable for your life. If I set out to go to the gym and lose £100 in 30 days, I'm just gonna fail probably on day three or four and be pissed by the end of it that I didn't achieve it. So why do we do other things with our lives and our goals? Why do we set these goals that we know we're gonna fail on? Why don't we set something that's realistic as a target we can work towards that we know, hey, if we achieve that, our life will be better and we'll be happier. So we don't need grind culture, hustle culture, all these Internet people saying 80 hour, 90 hour work weeks. We need true balance and attainable goals that are realistic for your life.
