Gary Vaynerchuk and others push 80-hour workweeks for young people, but the speaker argues this creates a lifelong trap where work becomes your entire identity. You can love your job without letting it consume everything else.
One of the sicknesses of our culture is we've got a lot of hustle culture where we've sold out. That's one of the problems of American culture. Uh, we've got a lot of great things about America, but one of the problems is this sellout for hustle culture, which is a masculine— you know, you hear the Gary Vees work 80, 90 hours a week when you're in your 20s. Well, if you start establishing those patterns, what are you going to do in your 30s? You're establishing a blueprint that you're sold out to your work. Exclusively. Not— I like my work, I love my work, I'm sold out to it, but I'm not sold out to it to compromise everything else.
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