[void_mint]

> A startup isn’t a suicide pact, it’s an adventure.

"Hustle Mentality" really ruins a lot of the magic of this statement (hence why this post needed to exist in the first place). That and ad revenue.

> You are important, you are intelligent, and you are loving. You’re worth worrying about.

Well said.

[sergiomattei]

Hustle mentality is the world's biggest pile of dogshit.

I'm continually perplexed how some folks trade their happiness and well-being for perceived improvements in status or money.

I did and I'm not doing that bullshit again.

[BoxOfRain]

I wonder if "hustle mentality" is something of an evolution the Puritan work ethic for a secular age? There's strains of Evangelical protestantism which place a great emphasis on the value of hard work to the exclusion of other parts of life, and Evangelicalism was extremely influential on Anglophone society for a large part of its history.

[fzzzy]

"People that are successful work hard" "I'm not successful yet" -> "Work harder" is a positive feedback loop train to burnout.

Maybe the real secret is "People that are successful work hard and have balance in their lives" but the problem is nobody knows what balance is. It's different for every person.

[w_t_payne]

Yeah. I liked that last bit as well.

[wayoutthere]

Hustle mentality is a choice. You can choose to prioritize other things. Most people will never be at the top of the world; it’s ok to have a well-paid but mundane job and use the money and free time to enjoy life. If we’re being honest, the future isn’t all that bright for any of us on this planet, so we might as well enjoy the good days we have left.

[void_mint]

I think you're being downvoted because, while yes "hustle mentality is a choice", it's also been propagandized and thrown at millions of people as a metric for success. To tell a 24 year old code school grad that "hustle mentality is a choice" ignores how easily that codeschool grad is getting dismissed from employment opportunities in favor of people that gladly throw their entire life away to land a job. Lots of people just want the "well paid mundane job" you're suggesting is "ok" to have.

[wayoutthere]

I’ve come to learn that creating the appearance of hustle while actually not doing that much work is the route to go. You have to be a ruthless self-promoter for it to be effective but it’s easy to just pretend to be busy all the time and talk up the very few things you do achieve. I’ve built a 20-year career from this, so I don’t believe it has a limited runway. I plan on riding this lazy train all the way to an exec role (director now so I don’t actually do much other than delegate anyway).

The whole thing is a fucking scam in the end. Hard work doesn’t pay off — pretty much every working-class person works 10x harder than me for 1/10 of the pay. The lazy person who can bullshit really well is always going to make more and burn out less.