Rich Schefren pushes back on the idea that CEOs need to work constantly. He argues that obsessive work focus comes at the cost of personal life, and questions whether that trade-off actually makes sense.
I work from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed. And I work seven days a week. When I'm not working, I'm thinking about working. You're thinking about what the company can be and are there things that we could do even better? Or sometimes it's just trying to solve a problem, you know, but sometimes you're imagining the future and, boy, we did this and that. It's working. You're fantasizing. You're dreaming. I mean, that's incredible.
That's incredible. I think that's fucking pathetic. Sounds like you're a horrible person to be in a relationship with a horrible person to be a friend with a horrible person, to be a father. Like there's so much to life, more than work, and when you die, you're not going to remember you at all. Like, it sounds like to me, a recipe for a very unfulfilling life. And I can't believe that someone would actually say these things. Yeah, I think that you should enjoy what you do. I think that if you don't enjoy what you do, you should do something else. But to think about work your whole, like, time awake to think about work when you're at a movie, to think about work, I guess when you're with your family, with your friends at a picnic means that your life is pretty pathetic, empty and meaningless, and I pity you.
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