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Hi {NAME},
I hate the âhustleâ culture thatâs embedded in modern entrepreneurship.
What is it? Itâs the feeling that we should constantly be working. Thereâs pressure to work while youâre on vacation. In the back of an Uber for 30 minutes? Thatâs time for a catchup call or to reply to emails.
Can you relate to this feeling?
I grew up with this mindset surrounding me. My parents were refugees who came to the USA with literally $0. The only thing they had was their work ethics. Having two jobs was normal. I only saw my parents on the weekends growing up.
Some of the more popular entrepreneurial influencers want to guilt everyone for taking a vacation. They want to guilt you for fucking sleeping.
Whatâs the problem with this? Everyoneâs burned out.
The formal definition is: Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion brought on by prolonged stress.
I know what burnout feels like:
- Iâd get easily triggered. I remember snapping at some of my ex-girlfriends for no reason over the smallest things.
- I wouldnât feel any motivation to work. Iâd just want to get it over with, so I could distract myself with video games instead.
- My mind wouldnât be as sharp. Iâd forget things. Itâd be hard for me to work without wanting to distract myself every 10 minutes.
- Exhaustion. Not just my mind and my body, it felt like my soul itself was tired.
This is a major societal problem. A recent survey showed that [69% of employees are experiencing burnout symptoms](. Japan has one of the longest working hours in the world. They also have one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
Thereâs a correlation.
I constantly suffered through burnouts from 2008â2010. I thought it was normal. All my peers would post updates at 2 am about how theyâre âgrinding.â Theyâd sleep when theyâre dead.
But then Iâd find out some of the consequences behind the scenes. Some people would turn to alcohol and drugs to cope. Depression's rampant in this space.
I knew this lifestyle wasnât sustainable, but I couldnât escape the guilt that I had to keep working.
One thing that really helped me was hearing an interview with Jeff Bezos.
âEight hours of sleep makes a big difference for me, and I try hard to make that a priority. For me, thatâs the needed amount to feel energized and excited.
Mostly, as any of us go through our lives, we donât need to maximize the number of decisions we make per day. Making a small number of key decisions well is more important than making a large number of decisions. If you shortchange your sleep, you might get a couple of extra âproductiveâ hours, but that productivity might be an illusion. When youâre talking about decisions and interactions, quality is usually more important than quantity.â
Jeff Bezos is the richest man on the planet. Here he is telling me itâs OK to sleep 8 hours a night. You have to optimize your life so you can make the best decisions possible.
Over the next few years I learned that I wasnât alone. Books such as [Deep Work](, [The One Thing](, and [Essentialism]( showed me that there was a better, and more effective way to work.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Itâs better to start with a mindset of preventing burnout than using more energy to cure it.
Iâm going to share with you 5 strategies for preventing burnout and making you a more effective worker.
[How to Stop Burning Out ->](
Stay focused,
Charles
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