The cemetery is full of successful people.

Most put there by relatives who couldn't stop wanting favors. Can you do X for me? Night and day.

Good quote!

Its full of losers too

Enjoy life before work

Yo but I really can't rest harder than dead tbh

This one can be pretty tricky, especially since working harder now can mean resting harder later. Not to mention nobody's priorities are identical... I spent most of my 20s working insanely hard. Barely had a single week between 22 and 29 that was less than 70 hours, and there were a couple of years in there where 90-100 hour weeks were the norm. But doing that when I was able to made it where now in my 30s I'm able to get a whole lot more while still resting and spending time with friends and family. And trading a significantly rougher time in my 20s for a significantly better 30s, 40s, 50s and on is a trade I'd make every time.

Man I rest so hard it's ridiculous

Why would you always want 'more'?

Correction - You work hard to make things easier.

Not "work hard so you have an excuse to be lazy." You have every right to relax whenever you want, given that doing so won't make things more difficult later on.

Some people don’t have the luxury of this choice.

I recently broke my hand; but after the doctor told me I have to take 6 weeks off I was telling myself “I’ll wait until I get the cast and I should be good to work.”It’s hard to not lose yourself in your work. My boss told me to take the 6 weeks to heal and collect disability. Upsetting but its better to let it heal properly.

Tell me about it. I had to take disability retirement decades too young, and I was at a total loss for the first two years. Hell, in many ways, although I’ve cudgeled an existence together, the feeling sometimes persists.

I only sort of agree with this.

I'm in my late 30s, I have a full time job and run a side business while also putting myself through college. I am the sole income to a house of 3, my younger brother lives with me and shares caregiver duties with me for our heavily disabled mother. He watches her and does most house duties while I work.

I work hard and have almost no social life now since this situation started with my mom over 2 years ago. I do this willingly because I love my mother and she is the only person I've ever truly been able to count on. I do this for and with my brother because I love him as well. After the situation with our mom changes one way or another we will have to work on getting him operating as a self sufficient adult sgsin, we both know that and we both understand it won't be instant and will take more work.

If I die today I will not have any regrets for what I'm doing. These are the people I love and I would walk to the ends of the earth for them.

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If the goal is to be the richest person in the cemetery, you're still dead.

Mt. Everest is full of dead motivated people

So to paraphrase, work hard play hard?

Lead (supervisor without the power or pay) was mad we had 2 bad weather days because the roads were covered in ice. I heard him talking to himself how he made it to work and we were going to work every weekend from now on. I'm typing this in my house enjoying my time.

And celebrate each and every one of your victories no matter how large or small!!

Yeah cause I have a fucking choice, I hustle to stay out of a ditch

Lmao. Fuck this post

You can rest even harder! I believe in you!

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Would suck to be in your 60s and wonder if you watched less sports/TV, you could have made a major contribution to humanity.

At least those regrets will be over in 30 years...

Similar here. Worked hard my whole life. Basically don't think about money anymore.

I know too many people who tried getting a cushie job and are making half of what I make.

It seems to compound. I didn't know this when I was a kid, I got lucky.

Yeah if you have a drug or spending problem, you always work hard..

Yeah… taking some time today to do that. I feel i should be working and normally am, but i am at wits end this afternoon and cant mentally handle more.

And it's gone....

Cool vacation, but 4 hours of volunteering with kids hits harder.

Many studies show people don't really think this way by their sixties. These sort of ego driven thoughts are the purview of younger people, and on average, people mellow out and grow happier with age, regardless of life success.

Given that by definition, 99.9% of people just have to go to a mundane job every day for 50 years, to keep civlisation afloat, such a mindset of having to be in the 0.1% who make some major contribution to be happy, is going to leave 99.9% of people unhappy.

Or if you are poor

So is your basement, if your username checks out

If you're going to hustle that hard then also make sure to eat well and to look after yourself.

I worked hard but did not take care of myself and ate a lot of things that were not good for me. Almost died just before my 60th birthday from a heart attack. I said I'm done and retired, and am concentrating on my health and my wonderful wife and kids. Quit smoking, started eating very clean and I'm in the gym 5-6 days a week with my wife and we're both enjoying my retirement.

Spending time with people you love can oftentimes be free, or at worst pretty cheap.

I needed to hear this today! #gratitude

Quit being a bitch - David Goggins

Hustling is just like buying a lottery ticket. The probabilities are different than the power all but it’s still a lottery.

How did u compound and what do u mean by compound?

It's the working long hours at multiple jobs part of being poor that cuts into your leisure time.

Like I tell a lot of the young men in their twenties who come into my shop...

"Don't be afraid of getting older. Your thirties are great... you've got more money and people treat you with more respect. Your forties are even better because even more money and even more respect. BUT... travel now while you're still young and healthy enough to enjoy it... and fuck everybody while you're still young and healthy enough to enjoy it."

I get it, I'm trying to adjust to only having about 3 or so hours at home per day, time management is hard, but setting goals and priorities helps a lot

I’ve been a hard rester so now my life is devastated.

My jobs kept paying more, each job trained me and increased my value. I've also combined a hobby/side biz skill with my degree.

I do think I'm going to need to become a manager soon.

Basically I automate extremely expensive labor. Had to learn both the labor and the automation.

How does one go about finding expensive labor that can be automated? I want to do something similar but I don’t even know where to start. I have a masters degree and am starting some hobby side biz

Scary stuff..keep learning more skills.

>many studies

>Psychology being science after their replication crisis

Be the expensive labor.

Learn to program.

Automate your own job.

Right now I automate 500k USD per year, compounding. I make $150k.

I'm considering to starting my own company and selling this service. I have a bit of experience in side businesses and my wife's company.

The only thing stopping me is the Victorian Dream of doing independent Science. Maybe I'll do that instead.

Maybe you should. I do program. I am an expert in azure cloud and backend development.

Thank you for being open and sharing

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This idea that the way most people contribute to the world is through their job is so myopic. It only exists because it’s easy to quantify.

I firmly believe that the biggest impact that 99.9% of people will have on the world is how they treat others, especially strangers.

I’ll give you a scenario: the lady in front of you at the grocery store is $20 short. You give her the $20. She doesn’t put back the breakfast supplies. Her kid gets a nice breakfast the next morning instead of nothing. Because of this, they’re not distracted and they get a good score on their placement exam that day, above the cutoff line for being in the gifted classes. They get more attention from teachers. They have more confidence in their abilities. They work harder in school, get good grades, get into college, get a good job, become successful.

Bad deeds work the same way. Say that instead of giving them $20, you steal $20 out of their purse in the checkout line. Now they don’t have the money for those breakfast supplies, their kid is below the cutoff line for gifted classes, and none of that stuff happens. They don’t do well in school, they don’t get into college, and they repeat the cycle of poverty they were born into.

I’m not saying that this happens every time you help someone with groceries, in fact it probably only happens 0.1% of the time, but it does happen. The problem is that we don’t see any of this, we don’t know what effect our actions have. But in reality, we all have a huge effect on the world around us.

Good and bad deeds also multiply. Say that woman is so grateful that she starts to do the same for others once her finances allow her to. The same thing happens to the people she helps, and the people they help, etc. Suddenly that single act is responsible for a thousand stories just like the one above, a thousand lives changed for the better. And that’s ONE single kind act. Multiply that over a lifetime, and you’ve affected millions of lives.

It won’t be on your tombstone, or in your eulogy, or in a Wikipedia article about your life, but this is your real legacy. This is your biggest impact on the world.

Hmm I'm no expert in those. Maybe you can think of opportunities in tooling. Gpt is shaking that up, not even sure what to say.

I did (real) engineering for a decade. Gpt isn't great at that.

I'll take it easy when I'm dead!!!

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This feels disingenuous. Only a tiny tiny tiny percentage of people who are hustling to get ahead financially are doing 'just because' they want more money or deeply love their hustles.

Mostly hustle culture is just a more socially acceptable form of working multiple jobs. Ya know, the exact same thing poor people have done for decades. But nobody wants to say 'My job cut my hours to avoid giving me any benefits and now I deliver food to people on the side' because it's depressing.

Especially in a place like the US where almost all aspects of our lives are predicated on having money. Yeah, I love spending time with my kids, but I also love taking them to the doctor and dentist. And things like preschool, quality daycare, sports/clubs/robot camp/tutors/act prep/etc etc etc. And all of the places around me that are actually affordable are high crime with subpar public schools.

Almost everyone would rather make $250k, work 20 hours per week and have time to coach my kids little league team...but if I'm working extra hours it's not because I've lost sight of what's really important in life.

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I'm still trying to find a reason to get out of bed

Thank you ,much needed

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I stand by this quote - it's so important to remember we need to enjoy life

I’ve always worked hard so I could have an easy retirement.

Yes! Most of the time, the ones who advocate ‘don’t work hard’ are the ones who bitch when they’re passed over for promotions.

What if friends and family are the hustle?

That's why it's important to work hard in a smart way and to create systems that will give you results that you wanted in less time and energy, because if you can do that you can do more than a person that works hard only and still have time for other things.

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Where does the post say anything about working being an excuse to be lazy?

Pick 2

daddy rested so hard he started to smell funny

why does everybody just assume you have friends and family

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I don’t understand why more people don’t spend a day and talk with a CPA

IF YOUR A WAGE SLAVE START A BUSINESS LITERALLY CAN BE ANYTHING.

FIND A CPA WHO IS NOT AN IDIOT.

TALK HOW YOU CAN SPEND MONEY ON YOUR BUSIENSS TO REDUCE THE AMOHNT YOU PAY ON TAXES.

GO READ RICH DAD POOR DAD IT IS REALLY THAT EASY.

Tl:dr IF YOU SPEND MORE MONEY THEN YOU MAKE YOU NEVER PAY ANY TAX.

I wish I listened!!!

I would but i have to work. You see, I'm very poor

Rest guys but harder

It's a common misconception that in order to relax they have to earn it. People feel guilty if they aren't working as if their worth is dependent on how much they labor.

I completely misread what you were saying. Yeah no one really “needs an excuse to be lazy” I just read this [post] as recognizing the importance of not pissing your life away in the “grindset” or whatever.

Working from home, I can take naps during lunch, I'm never going back

And some weird looking moths

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Live fast, die young

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"Don't work super hard, because you might just die."

Now that's motivating!

As Ann Landers used to say, "Nobody can take advantage of you unless you let them."

Ah yes, cant wait to work for 13 hours and rest for 15 hours everyday

Aaaaaand you’ve been fired.

> Bad deeds work the same way. Say that instead of giving them $20, you steal $20 out of their purse in the checkout line. Now they don’t have the money for those breakfast supplies, their kid is below the cutoff line for gifted classes, and none of that stuff happens. They don’t do well in school, they don’t get into college, and they repeat the cycle of poverty they were born into.

That's a ridiculously one dimensional way to look at things, and doesn't even work that way in modern countries where education is free.

I totally feel you and many people have no choice but to hustle endlessly, but I worked myself into a mental hospital and almost to death. I couldn’t juggle it all anymore and I broke down. It was a bit more complicated than that, but sleep deprivation and constant stress really damaged my body, and my brain isn’t quite what it was before my break. You can seriously burn yourself out if you burn the candle at both ends for too long and eventually find yourself unable to work effectively. Pure frustration, to have trained at something for years and years and to struggle emotionally to do it at all anymore. The depression was intense.

I know a guy who gave himself diabetes by dealing with his work stress through sugar, and another has chronic health issues- it can seriously damage you physically to push yourself too hard at work. It’s important to sleep and have hobbies outside of work to at least avoid burnout and exhaustion. Breaks and vacations help output in the long run, turns out.

But there’s still no shame in working fucking hard to support your people. This is just the system we live in.

That's a good one, thanks OP

i understand what you mean but I think running non stop is what's keeping me sane. If I wanted I could just work my 9-5 and be fine financially, but that's just not who I am.

I wasted a lot of time partying in my early adulthood but also developed an entrepenuriel spirit. I wound up self employed in my mid 20's until my life reset from an extremely nasty breakup involving being lied to and left for another man. This was my second serious relationship to fall apart in this way and it did some real damage to me mentally.

to be honest it created serious emotional damage, to the point that I've been single for 10 years now. I'm incapable of connecting with anyone beyond superficial levels and at this point I've just kind of accepted I'll have to get by with casual flings that burn out from here on. I honestly don't see a wife and kids in the cards for me anymore despite being something I'd like to have.

Anyway, I used this life reset to change something: I always regretted not going to college and I decided I might as well make something good out of everything, so I signed up to college and got a "real job" to aliviate all the stress of being a 1 man army while in school. Thing is I was used to it and never fully stopped so over time I just kind of naturally built the entrepenure thing back up into a decent chunk of additional income.

Then the mom thing happened.

I don't have a girlfriend or wife, no kids, and frankly I'm already an emotional mess. I realized I think I kept doing the entrepenure thing because I can't tolerate more than 4-5 hours without being focused on something or else I start focusing on all the bad. Keeping myself going keeps the bad out, so I guess that's what I do.

Not to say this is something I'm strategically doing, but I notice I like to keep myself busy and the times I don't I start going into a pretty negative place.

Thank you for reminding me to do so.

Work hard and rest harder? That's actually a good way to put yourself in a grave early.

Upvote yeah

So basically “Live, laugh, love”?

r/GetUnmotivated

I feel bad for everyone who focuses on how hard they work.

if Working harder mattered, You'd scrub the floor with the toothbrush.

Value-provided matters - not working hard.

You should maximize your value provided within whatever capacities you have.

eww, weaklings

Yeah sorry Imma disagree. While being nice is important, for a big part of the world they would rather have a working economy, gas bills paid and food on the table, which gets impacted by the economy of your country and what the productivity of your countries work is.

These stories are nice and some do have live changing moments, but this is just ignoring the people that work for 50 odd years making sure those groceries even exist in the first place.

I didn’t imply anywhere that working and being a productive member of society isn’t important. Of course that’s still important, but you’re not changing the world working at your job. If you didn’t exist, someone else would be doing that job and would likely do about the same work as you did. People have to work to keep the economy functioning and that won’t change any time soon. But what everyone has in their power to control is how they treat other people, and the difference in someone’s lifetime effect on the world being a hateful, selfish, cruel person and a loving, generous, empathetic person is massive. It’s a lot more massive than if someone else did the job you’re doing.

To put it in economic terms: say you tried extra hard at work and increased your productivity by 10% over your lifetime by working 50 hours instead of 40 hours per week. Great, that’s 10% more work than you would’ve done over 50 years. It took 26,000 hours to do all of that extra work, 26,000 hours of productive work put into the economy.

Now say that instead of working an extra 10 hours, you volunteered in an after-school program for at-risk kids, taught them life skills, helped them with homework, and provided them with a responsible adult role model to emulate. Say you also did this for 10 hours a week for 50 years. Say that you spent 100 hours total per kid. That’s 260 kids who have a much better chance of succeeding academically, getting a good job, avoiding prison, raising a family, teaching their kids the same life skills and being that same role model, etc. 260 adults who are much more likely to be contributing to the economy instead of being a burden on government resources. Even if you only saved one of those kids from going to prison, that’s a huge amount of money that would be saved. It takes the full annual tax revenue of half a dozen working citizens just to incarcerate one person for a year.

Now which do you think has made the bigger impact, that 10% increase in your work productivity, or spending 100 hours each with 260 kids (or 200 hours each with 130 kids, or 1000 hours each with 26 kids) who go on to be much more likely to have productive careers of their own, and to raise children who also have productive careers, and so on? It’s simple interest vs. compounding interest, linear growth vs geometric growth.

I don’t just mean helping someone change a tire, I’m talking about being a positive force in other people’s lives, whether that’s taking advantage of chance encounters to help someone who needs it, making a concerted effort to help through a volunteer program, or just being kind to someone who needs some kindness in their life. You never know what effect your actions will have.

Great advice... when you can eat regularly. Many people these days have to choose between food, rent, and utilities. Because many large employers chose profits over people.

This is a huge generalized comment on a large complex topic. I do realize that. But most advice like the original post is meant for the shrinking middle class and up.

I usually rest after no longer being hard.

I don’t have time and the time I have is used for escapism to make comments here

Okay, I don't agree with your calculations, that 10% extra put into work could also be a breakpoint for many jobs changing lives etc (very unreasonable, but that is the premise of your being nice argument), cause guess what, all those volunteer tasks that have compounding interests also can he jobs. A teacher that teaches 10% better could also change so many more.lives than your volunteer guy, a doctor working 10% better, literally saving 10% more lives.

I don't disagree that education and mental health impact the economy a lot, but I disagree on the magnitude you describe to these effects from chance meetings on the street etc from untrained volunteer workers compared to mental health professionals

P.s. saying yeah someone else does the job if you don't exist and then ignoring that argument for your own choices (like only you can do volunteer work and no one else) is kinda weird.

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I agree..... A late grave is far more fitting ...

Nice.

These are so cringe

Just balancing both.

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wowthanksimcured! I really have time, money and energy after a full work week to do anything other than locking myself away at home..

I get that, distracting yourself with the work. I’m non-stop running too, I just make sure that some of that running is for things I WANT to do, not just the corporate bullshit I have to do. Even in my burnout I was still working, it was just painful. Took 3 years or more to even start to recover, and even now I’m still struggling. Having a spouse and multiple kids also makes it very difficult to work outside a 9-5, but even one kid can add a lot of stress. Sounds like you went through a lot of the trauma and stuff that causes people to shift earlier than most, but I’m glad you have a balance that works for you. Just please don’t push yourself too hard and I hope you take the time to enjoy some of your life. Otherwise what’s the point of being here?

Get motivated to do more of nothing, people! It’s time to stop!

“Don’t do this!” or “Do this!” has never worked for me. For example, when I dislike my mother-in-law, even if someone says “you must love your enemy,” how can I?

However, when I understand her life and become compassionate with her, I can learn a kind of psychology from her and I can thank her for giving me a chance to study firsthand psychology, and then I can work harder to become a better person who even can love my enemy.

Appreciation and Love naturally occur when we try to learn from others. I can’t memorize those many imperative forms either because my life would become too complex to enjoy.

Hustling is spending the best years of your life to exhaustion so you can rest when you're old and exhausted anyway.

Besides, most people who hustle don't even know what to do once they've accumulated enough and get back working anyway out of boredom, albeit it be something of their liking in all likelyhood since they may choose not to work and withdraw if whatever they're doing doesn't please them.

I can't rest harder I am still young and I have a lot to achieve

Extra pro tip: you’re also allowed to be content with what you have and NOT strive for more, but rather towards bettering yourself and achieve the best life for YOU (and those around you). Which isn’t mutually exclusive with the original comment but just saying that material things and money doesn’t increase your life quality as long as one has enough to pay life’s necessities and a few pleasures sometimes.

Its full of losers too

Exercise, people, exercise.