[aabhay]

I don’t have any advice for you, but I can at least say that I’m in a similar boat. I have periods in my past/present where some big challenge lies ahead and my team and I need to sprint HARD to meet it.

I originally used to see these moments like a soldier preparing for battle, believing that on the other side that things would be great and I would be proud of the grind. Instead, I sorta look back at those times with a big ‘meh’. If there was success, it wasn’t due to the grind. If there was failure, the grind made it worse. And it put everything else I cared about on the back burner — relationships, health, hobbies, friends.

In some ways, I feel that these cycles of grind are partially my destiny, they’re when I’ve done my most challenging and perhaps meaningful work. But it doesn’t match up to my expectations and nowadays I see them as a kind of crutch for not having a better strategy of doing consistently great work.

Wondering if anyone has any similar feelings or experiences.