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Please Stop Hustling in 2021

You’re probably working too hard. Don’t.

It’s New Year’s Eve, so I will keep this brief: If I could offer you any piece of professional advice for 2021, it would be to please stop working so hard.

There just isn’t any good reason to.

Hard work doesn’t improve your quality of life.

Hard work doesn’t move you up the corporate ladder.

Hard work doesn’t correlate with dollars earned.

Hard work doesn’t make you a better person.

Hard work is not indicative of your wealth, worth, importance, impact, personhood or character. Those are lies fed to you to keep you working.

People who demand hard work at the expense of your well-being are not good people. Neither are companies who do so.

A society that demands hard work without also providing appropriate things like a living wage, healthcare, retirement and opportunity is not a functional society.

An economy that requires hard work to keep it humming is by definition not sustainable.

Any sort of career or financial success you achieve at your expense of your own boundaries, mental health or physical wellbeing is a pyrrhic victory.