A spoken monologue (YouTube) by Omar Zenhom reflecting on work ethic, burnout, and productivity. The speaker rejects the idea that equal success could be achieved without intense effort, endorses hard work as central to their success, and advises outsourcing tasks that don't bring joy or that are worth less than a high personal hourly rate (example: $1,000/hour).
Someone asked me the other day, do you think you would have got where you have gotten to without working as hard as you could? Like, if there was if you could avoid burnout, if you could have balance, like, do you think that's possible? I would like to say of course we can do it in such a healthy way. But I actually, I don't. You don't believe. I don't believe it, no. I do think it takes hard work. The online world just romanticizes way too much work. Smarter, not harder. Can I. Yeah. And, you know, outsource. If it doesn't bring you joy, outsource it. Or if you charge yourself out at $1,000 an hour, anything less than that, you should hire people for that whole thing. I do believe in hard work. I think it has served me really well.
