Love & respect for showing the mirror in the fake online world and a big kudos to N. The time each company starts paying hourly pay I am sure the financial viability of most of the company's will become lopsided.Įxcellent summarization and I loved it Anupam Mittal, hence sharing it. India is a hub of services and OUTSOURCING because we are ready to abuse our human capital in the garb of hardwork and not pay for the work that we make them do. I will totally agree with anyone who is ready to pay more money for every minute extra spent in office & exhibit leadership. I m sure that if Mr MF Hussain kept painting for 80 hrs a week he would have been rubbish.Ī balanced way of living provides productivity in the long run consistently.Īn employer would always want an employee to work long hrs because it might give him some benefit but he would pay him for a 8 hr shift. These exceptional people achieve greatness in moments & in a few acts of bravery or Valor. I guess there are some areas where one can only excel if one works continuously & burnes night lamp & others where greatness is produced by having connect with life and the living. Neither do you become a Steve Jobs or an Elon Musk by waiting to hit the pub at 4 pm (Hope Rishi Sunak & his country are paying attention to pa-in-law □) So, by all means, pursue WL balance if you must, but do so with the tacit realization that 'greatness' may forever elude you.ĭo you think that a guy who is awarded with a Paramveer Chakra ,is he great ? Can a business leader, a sports person or an artist ever have the same parameter of achievement and greatness. You don't become a Sachin or a Virat by playing only on the weekends or an Amitabh Bachchan by shooting 20 hours a week. Because 'great' is relative, there is always somebody willing to out-compete you in anything worth pursuing. Nothing great has been achieved by rationing your contribution. Ideally, you would have put in the blood, sweat & tears and either embraced the ‘struggle’ or walked away, comfortable with the knowledge & experience that your priorities lie elsewhere and the outcomes in your life may not align with worldly success. How do you know you don't like it if you never worked hard in your life? Simply seeking work/life balance (I hate that term by the way) for the sake of it is a fool’s errand. Even if you don't actually like what you are doing at the time, developing this habit allows you to fully apply yourself when you do actually find your passion and your dream. and when the going gets tough you want to have the muscle memory of digging through endless & torturous tunnels □ Life can be very unpredictable and punishing. Consistent discipline early on in your career builds work ethic and stamps it on your DNA. Some of your best work in your life will come when you are in flow. If you don't know what flow is, do read up on it. Long hours usually means intensive & focussed work and intensive work usually puts you in 'flow'. Now, before you get the knives out, let me explain. about 5 years … ideally early on in their career. Personally, this is what I think -> EVERYBODY should work 80 hours a week & that too for a respectable stretch of time. Narayana Murthy's alleged position and others raging & trolling him and others who even somewhat agreed with Mr. People seem to have ignored the context and taken a binary view with some vehemently supporting N. what matters is you work long enough during the week so that it is the only thing you have time for. No, you should not! You should work 80 hours a week □
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