Sometimes You Do Need To Hustle.

Over the last few years, there has been a backlash against what is commonly called “Hustle Culture” — burning the midnight oil and working seven days a week to achieve a desired outcome.

Hustle culture is undoubtedly unhealthy and can lead to burnout, yet sometimes, if you want to accomplish something big, the only way it will happen is to put the hours in. Apple’s first operating system and Microsoft Windows weren’t created by people working nine to five hours and resting on the weekends.

These world-changing systems were created by obsessed people sitting in a room, eating pizza, and only stopping when they could no longer keep their eyes open. If you know the story of the Apollo Space Programme, you will see the same thing. Those incredible pioneers were obsessed with putting a human on the Moon and worked sixteen hours or more daily.

People are naturally lazy. It’s how we survive. Our bodies are designed to conserve energy in case of famine or when some predator or danger threatens us. Most of those dangers no longer exist, yet we are still hard-wired to conserve energy. It’s why so many of us procrastinate and put off until tomorrow what could be done today until tomorrow.

If it weren’t for people like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci and Charles Darwin, our understanding of the world…