| "but working at 50% effort for twice as many hours is a horrible way to go about things because you end up living a miserable life." For how long? The years of college and graduate school? Misery is not working hard enough and then ending up being one of those people unemployed in later years. (Which I agree can happen to anyone obviously.) "6 hours a day of hard work is worth a lot more than 12 hours of half assed work" True. But you will never be able to work as long and as hard as you can when you are young. The fun comes later.
And once you have a family and kids all bets are off as
far as how much you can work. Look different things are important to different people. But in life (as in entrepreneurship) you never know the thing that you do that will eventually benefit you. You have to learn and do as much as you can. I can trace things now that are of great benefit today that I did 15 years ago by foregoing a summer and actually summers of fun. It's easy to look back (even roentgen at 800k) and say "look it all worked out for me and I was able to party". But we don't really have much data to support that strategy (an outlier as pointed out by verisimilitude) and in fact it doesn't really make sense that you can put in half the work and do AS WELL as putting in more of an effort without completely wearing yourself down. |