In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about the 100-hour work week. The adrenaline to overexert and overwork yourself so you can get more things done is a hustle that no founder should be investing into. Here’s why. You can only get things done at your peak hours. No one gets productive a hundred hours a week. It’s an awful burnout.
Show Notes
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about the 100-hour work week. The adrenaline to overexert and overwork yourself so you can get more things done is a hustle that no founder should be investing into. Here’s why. You can only get things done at your peak hours. No one gets productive a hundred hours a week. It’s an awful burnout.
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What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:45 The Hustle Porn hype: The 100-hours work week
- 05:21 How many hours a day are your peak hours?
- 09:25 If you give yourself more hours, you spend more hours
- 13:15 Why are your work days loaded?
- 18:54 When you think you’re crushing it
- 22:30 Oh, you’re crushing it but at what cost?
- 28:02 The 30-second success story of a founder on social media
- 31:19 Get out of the habit of ‘how you’re crushing it’
- 32:28 Those who don’t brag about crushing it are actually the ones getting the work done
- 35:55 We need to put an end to the hustle porn
What is Startup Therapy?
The "No BS" version of how startups are really built, taught by actual startup Founders who have lived through all of it. Hosts Wil Schroter and Ryan Rutan talk candidly about the intense struggles Founders face both personally and professionally as they try to turn their idea into something that will change the world.