Short excerpt from a YouTube video (by Mike Andes) arguing that hours worked and visible effort are inputs, not the true measure of success. Mike Andes emphasizes outcomes — money collected, number of employees, and societal contribution — as the meaningful outputs that move the needle, and warns against idolizing effort itself.
I basically want to.
Outwork everybody so.
Substantially that people even stop.
Debating if they're even in my solar system. I'll lean into that. And that should be everyone's measurement right there.
And that was where the big disconnect happened with me in this interview was that is not the measuring rod. How hard you work is not the measuring rod. That is an input to the output. The output is the results. The output is the thing that actually matters and moves the needle. That is the money collected, the employees that you had. The. The amount you contribute to society. The input of how hard you work is absolutely useless, and nobody cares about it. If we idolize and put on a pedestal the hours put into doing something and the effort and the energy to do it, it creates an illusion that by doing the inputs, you somehow get the output. And that is not the case.
