Hard work will not make you rich.

0:00Hard work will not make you rich. I get driven nuts by the amount of gurus and influencers and whatever who want to brag and say no one can outwork me. I'm the best in the world. Blah blah blah blah blah. It's objectively A, false. B, so many people work 16 hours a day and just sleep and then work again. And so then how are we defining hard work? Is it just that you work in general? Congratulations. So once you max out your hours worked, there has to be another variable, which is the leverage you gain on the activities in the time you spend. And that is in my opinion where people should focus their attention. Now, if you're a newbie and you can't get your ass off the couch, then by all means figure out how to actually get your ass off the couch and do stuff. Because then it comes, okay, well I've maximized every hour that I'm awake. What if some an activity has 100 times higher leverage? Do I still need to work 16 hours a day? What if I work 12 hours a day, I get 4 hours back and I'm doing 100 times the leverage.

0:43Because it doesn't matter as much. So then the reality is that you just need to figure out the activities that have the most leverage and do those.