If you’re not the right person for the article, I’d instead recommend this post on Sustained effort, potential, and obligation. I’ve found it’s given me a helpful framework for making sense of my own limits on working hours, and you may also find it useful.
I admit that reading this post also stirred up some feelings of inadequacy for me—because, unlike all those CEOs and great men of history, I have actually a pretty low-to-average limit on how much sustained effort my brain will tolerate in a day. If you find yourself with similar feelings (which might be distressing, perhaps even leading you to spiral into self-hatred and/or seek out extreme measures to ‘fix’ yourself), the best antidote I’ve found for myself is The Parable of the Talents by Scott Alexander. (TLDR: variation in innate abilities is widespread, and recognizing and accepting the limits on one’s abilities is both more truthful and more compassionate than denying them.)
If you’re not the right person for the article, I’d instead recommend this post on Sustained effort, potential, and obligation. I’ve found it’s given me a helpful framework for making sense of my own limits on working hours, and you may also find it useful.
I admit that reading this post also stirred up some feelings of inadequacy for me—because, unlike all those CEOs and great men of history, I have actually a pretty low-to-average limit on how much sustained effort my brain will tolerate in a day. If you find yourself with similar feelings (which might be distressing, perhaps even leading you to spiral into self-hatred and/or seek out extreme measures to ‘fix’ yourself), the best antidote I’ve found for myself is The Parable of the Talents by Scott Alexander. (TLDR: variation in innate abilities is widespread, and recognizing and accepting the limits on one’s abilities is both more truthful and more compassionate than denying them.)