I’ve tried many things but by far the biggest contributor to me working hard was working on something that I truly believed in. I find it much harder to work on something I don’t actively believe in (to the point where I will quit or pretend to work) and now that I do what I believe in it’s hard for me to not work on it.
I am currently at 60-70 hours per week (although I intend to optimise to 50 hours per week because it’s more sustainable over an entire career) and I receive no pay (I’m a profit for good startup founder) and I used to be at 40 hours per week with pretty good pay.
The second thing that has tremendous effects on me are sleeping well, excercising, having stable relationships with my GF, friends and family and eating well, in that order of importance.
Other things that worked for me to work smarter or harder, which might be only 10% where the others above are 90% for me: - focusmate.com - telling people I will do X. It’s more likely I do X when I promised it to someone else than when I promise it to myself
I’ve tried many things but by far the biggest contributor to me working hard was working on something that I truly believed in. I find it much harder to work on something I don’t actively believe in (to the point where I will quit or pretend to work) and now that I do what I believe in it’s hard for me to not work on it.
I am currently at 60-70 hours per week (although I intend to optimise to 50 hours per week because it’s more sustainable over an entire career) and I receive no pay (I’m a profit for good startup founder) and I used to be at 40 hours per week with pretty good pay.
The second thing that has tremendous effects on me are sleeping well, excercising, having stable relationships with my GF, friends and family and eating well, in that order of importance.
Other things that worked for me to work smarter or harder, which might be only 10% where the others above are 90% for me:
- focusmate.com
- telling people I will do X. It’s more likely I do X when I promised it to someone else than when I promise it to myself