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Understand that Overwork Is Not Necessary for Success
If you buy into that thinking, even just a tiny bit, you won’t be able to resist triggers, like others telling you about their overworking. This social pressure will activate your anxiety, with all the attendant emotional and physical reactions.
You need to radically reject the idea that such behavior is required or even beneficial.
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Ignore Requests to Overwork
Here’s a very basic law of psychology: When behaviors are reinforced, they increase. When you ignore them, you might see an “extinction burst” — a short-term rise in the problematic behaviors — but then they will stop.
If your boss is the one pressing you to overwork, that’s one of the most...
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Learn from Role Models
Simply look inside and outside your professional niche. Who inspires you by doing well without overwork, hustle, or burning themselves out? What are their approaches? Can you adapt any of them to fit your values, goals, personality, and circumstances?
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Reject Hustle Culture. Instead Focus on Deeper Goals and Your Craft
The behaviors and language associated with hustle culture don’t typically lead to great accomplishments. What does is the pursuit of deeper, more personal goals like knowing and understanding important phenomena, solving complex problems, or making a positive impact in society.
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Be Clear on Your Values
It’s important to specifically identify your values. Sure, most of us can agree that things like equality, justice, efficiency, generosity, bravery, autonomy, challenge, cooperation, adventure are good. However, we differ in our priorities — our most important values — and what makes us feel most...
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Pressure to Overwork: Key Ideas
We all face internal and external pressures to overwork. But to be fulfilled in your life and career, you need to push back against those forces.
- Understand that overwork is not necessary for professional success; if you find yourself ...
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