Ryan Selkis

Genuinely curious about the % of people with successful careers who are arguing against this but worked nights and weekends in their 20s themselves

That’s my exact point. Calling out the hypocrisy of “lifestyle coaches” who preach something they themselves didn’t follow on their path to success. You can live a great life working regular hours. But you can’t have it all, and better to work hard in your 20s than your 40s.

This is... not true at all. It’s also a super discouraging message for people who spend their 20s, idk, caring for sick family or raising a child or pursuing a passion they decide to abandon. It’s a nice way to justify sunk cost though

Raising a child and caring for a sick relative or pursuing a side project is working more than 9-5. My point stands. The exceptions to the rule are just that: exceptions.

Some us who disagree know the value of hard work. Many of us had the attitude you are trumpeting, ended up in hospitals, objectively harmed our careers. Giving unsolicited career advice to ignore burnout is like giving unsolicited exercise advice to ignore tendon pain.

The dying wish of so many: "I wish I'd worked round the clock more in my 20s."

I’m never going to regret working so hard with people I admired, learned a ton from, and accelerated my personal and career development. They were colleagues, now they’re friends.

I’m 33.