What do I think about the "TRY-HARD" mentality - #AskEvan

What do I think about the try-hard mentality? I'm going to answer that question in today's episode of Ask Evan. So I got a question from one of my YouTube viewers, love you guys, Rui Guo, who wrote in to say, "Hey Evan, what are your thoughts on the try-hard mentality?" So I'm not super familiar with the try-hard mentality. My understanding of it is it's when you're working really hard on something but you're not seeing results. It's kind of like busy work. You're working just to work and you're not actually moving forward on anything that you're doing. And so if that's what you're doing, it's not good. But for any big goal that you have, you have to work really hard, right? It's not just working smart, it's working smart and working hard, and you have to try really hard to make that happen. And I like to think of it in terms of not having regrets in my life and feeling like I gave everything I had to whatever project I was working on. I'm gonna give you an example of something that's happening right now. I'm in the process of acquiring a business, and as part of that process, I want to bring on a team leader to help run a good chunk of the company. And at first he said no, and I went home and thought about it, and I thought, well, maybe there's got to be another way to do it. You know, I wanted to make sure that every stone was turned over, every possible opportunity, every possible angle was explored. I didn't want to feel like there was some other way that we could structure this deal to make it work so that he would say yes. And so, you know, 2 nights ago I was up until 5 in the morning structuring a deal. We met again last night and he was here at my place until midnight working on another deal. And it looks like we have something in place. You know, maybe next week I'll have a video to update you guys on what's happening. But it was all of that work was because, you know, even though he said no at the start, I wanted to make sure just in my own head that I explored every single angle, every possible way to accomplish 'Hey, is this my goal? I tried.' And if he at the end of that said no, that's cool. I would move on and find somebody else, and I'd get somebody else to kind of run that position. But I didn't want to live the rest of my life in regret thinking like, 'Man, what if I just tried this angle or that angle or this angle?' Right? And hoping that maybe that would have worked out. And so if you have a dream, a lot of times the most logical path or the path that you think is going to work out doesn't. And so if you want to hit that dream, you've got to take detours, you've got to find other ways of saying, you've got to take a different way to get there, and that comes from trying hard and doing a lot of work to do it. My second quick thought on it is you want to do things out of passion, and you're not working hard just to look like you're busy, you know, make everybody look at you and say, "Well, that guy's doing a ton of work," but you're working as a byproduct of you being excited about something, about you being passionate about something. When you love doing something, it almost doesn't feel like you're doing work because you're so engrossed in it and you have such a commitment level to it. And so I would focus not on how much work you're doing, but are you doing work that you love? Because if you're doing work that you love, you're gonna try hard and do a good job of it and put in the hours that you need to be successful. If you look at any successful entrepreneur and track their growth, it came from putting in insane amounts of hours, working smart plus working hard, doing something that they love. And so those are my quick thoughts. Hopefully it answered the question, uh, and continue to believe. So I'd love to know from you guys, what do you think about the try-hard mentality? Leave it in the comments below. I'm going to join in the discussion. Thank you so much for watching. Continue to believe, and I'll see you soon.