This is a pretty sad post and touches on something I read on Cal Newport’s blog today where he referred to a similar piece written by another ambitious and established 22-year-old in the WSJ titled, “‘Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre"
https://calnewport.com/does-work-life-balance-make-you-medio...
I’ve come across tropes about how Millennial discontent is based on figuring out that the idea of grinding through your 20s like it’s twenty years ago is a trap. Or something like that.
Seems like the idea is rearing its head again.
But the last paragraph of this post tells me that he’s aware that his optimism and will has its limits. “COVID came and went,” ta-huh!
lotta folks have no work life balance and hardly any money
the majority of people will have average-or-worse results - just definitionally
there are a lot of advantages - of circumstance, of timing, of availability, of placement, of health - that nobody has control over
if someone tells you that you can just grind yourself to generational wealth they're trying to sell you something, don't listen
you can't guarantee yourself success with the right attitude and actions
BUT
you can guarantee yourself failure pretty damn easily with the wrong ones. you don't need to be a workaholic. but you need to be willing to work for what you want. and you need to be willing to work to find what will satisfy you beyond just high scores in bank accounts. there's mental poison on both ends, both will likely leave you bitter and unfulfilled when you don't replicate someone else's tens of millions of dollars by age X