How Hustle Culture is Killing You

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When I was a kid.

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My Nana said, you have to suffer to be beautiful.

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That's a pretty shitty thing to say to a kid.

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But the truth is that the idea that we have to suffer in order

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to have things or be successful.

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Is a narrative that we are constantly being forced bed.

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And it's actually killing us.

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Welcome to episode 68 of this shit works.

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I am your host, Julie Brown.

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And today we are discussing how hustle culture.

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Is quite literally killing you.

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Elon Musk once said nobody ever changed the world in 40 hours a week.

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To MUSC.

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80 hour weeks they're sustainable.

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And he actually said that occasionally we should have spikes

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where we work 100 hours per week.

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This.

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This is why we are all working ourselves quite literally to death.

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Because we've been fed a bullshit narrative that we need to hustle and grind

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all day in order to achieve anything.

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But, you know what.

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There's no guarantee that the more hours that we clock in.

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That those hours will actually translate into success.

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Are we actually productive?

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Or are we just addicted to being busy?

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How many times in the past year, have you asked someone how they are doing

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and may have responded with so busy?

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Almost every single person.

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Right.

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And you know what?

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I'm no better.

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That has been my go-to answer during the pandemic.

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And yes, I have been busy, but why am I wearing the fact that I'm busy

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as some sort of badge of honor?

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I almost feel like if I'm not busy, then I'm not working hard enough, not

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hustling enough, not hungry enough.

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And it has to stop.

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Uh, 2014 meta analysis of more than 530,000 people.

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Published in Lancet found that people who work 55 hours per week

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have a 33% higher risk of stroke.

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Compared with those who only work 40 hours per week.

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And then there's this, a study published in environmental international estimated

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that nearly 750,000 people died in 2016 from stroke and heart disease.

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As a result of having worked at least 55 hours a week.

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And that between 2000 and 2016, the number of deaths from heart disease

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and stroke due to working long hours increased by 42% and 19% respectively.

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Why is this?

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You might ask.

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Well, the more hours we work, the less time we have to take care of ourselves.

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But less time.

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We have to dedicate to exercise, spending quality time with family and

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friends, eating healthy, sleeping.

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We glorify hustle.

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It's a toxic philosophy.

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We've been taught that the more you suffer and sacrifice the

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wealthier and more successful.

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You'll be.

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I had to stop listening to one of my favorite speakers, Gary Vaynerchuk.

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I used to love him, but now every time I hear him speak, I can quite literally

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feel an anxiety attack coming on.

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He preaches about how he never takes a vacation.

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He gets up earlier than he wants.

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I once heard him say that if you have time to binge watch Netflix, you have

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time to work harder and work more hours.

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Well, I don't know about you, but I really enjoy watching

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Netflix after a full day of work.

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He's not the only one out there with ideas like this.

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You know, there are CEOs that preach that we need to wake up at 4:00 AM and every

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day they want us to think that the more hours we put in the less sleep we get the

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less of a life we have outside of work.

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The better our chances of success will be.

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I think.

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We should start looking at results.

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What are we getting from all the extra hours we worked?

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Are we actually producing more?

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Are we actually producing better?

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You see, it doesn't matter if you spend 30 minutes on a

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project or 30 hours on a project.

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If the end result is the same.

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Time spent doesn't always translate into a better product or a better result.

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So I think we need to learn to be more focused when working.

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To make the most of the time we were spending working by avoiding

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distractions, staying focused and giving ourselves breaks in

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between periods of intense effort.

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No one on their deathbed ever said they wished they had worked more hours.

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And yet we constantly think that that is the way we should be living.

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Then that's how we're going to find happiness.

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Aiden Harper creator of four day week a European workweek shrinkage campaign.

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It says that hustle culture and I quote, creates the assumption that

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the only value we have as human beings is our productivity capability.

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Uh, our ability to work rather than our humanity.

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And quote.

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We are so much more than workers.

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We don't need to be bound and also identified by our profession alone.

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So, what can you do if you identify with everything?

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I just said, if you were caught up in the grind, working too many hours, not

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taking time for yourself or your family.

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If you think that you have to be suffering to earn success.

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Well, there are some tips from head versiti.com and Shonda.

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that say first?

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Start with awareness.

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Be aware, are you in a hustle culture?

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Are you exhausted and depleted with no time for things besides work?

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Be aware of that.

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Second.

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Identify what is important to you?

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Yes.

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Work is important to you, but what else is important to you?

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Are you dedicating time to the other parts of your life that are important to you?

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Third.

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Define what your ideal Workday looks like.

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Schedule in what's mandatory for you to accomplish for both

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your work and your wellbeing.

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Fourth.

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Give your mind, time to wander.

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By taking mindful micro breaks throughout your Workday, you will feel

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more balanced and therefore protect yourself from experiencing burnout.

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Five.

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Reward yourself now.

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Not later.

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Hustle culture is built on the mantra that your hard work will someday pay off.

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Don't wait for some day.

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Work on smaller, more manageable goals that include taking time for yourself

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and doing things outside of work.

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And six.

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Work hard.

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Rest hard.

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Rather than treating self care as a commodity, that must be earned.

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Lead with self love and compassion.

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Even take a mental health day when you need it.

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We all know that when we step away from the tasks that we are working on, our

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mind has the ability to help us see the solutions to those tasks more easily.

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I hope this is helpful.

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As we lead into this super busy time of year, but also as we look to the

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new year, And decide what we want.

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Our 20, 22 to look like.

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So I picked this cocktail because of the name.

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It's called.

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The haymaker cocktail.

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And it combines the best parts of a Manhattan and a whiskey sour plus the

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splash of Quantro and it packs a punch.

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Get it haymaker punch.

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Okay.

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Here's what you're going to need.

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One teaspoon of lime zest.

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Plus one ounce of lime juice divided.

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Two tablespoons of sugar.

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Three fourths ounce of bourbon, three, four ounces, sweet for Muth

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in an quarter ounce of Quantro.

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So what you're going to do is we're going to make a Rimmer for the glass.

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You're going to stir together the lime zest and the sugar on a small plate.

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And then you're going to cut an extra lime and rim the edge of

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a double old fashioned glass.

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With line and then dip it into the lime zest in the sugar mixture.

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Phillip cocktail shaker with bourbon vermouth, Concho.

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The lime juice that you separated in ice shake until Joel, about.

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10 15 seconds.

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And then strain that into your prepared double old fashioned glass.

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And add some new ice to it.

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All right, friends.

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That's all for this week.

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