The big problem I have with this advice is that it can’t be scaled up to everbody. If everybody were to follow this advice, we’d have a situation where everbody works 4 extra unpaid hours and nobody stands out. Advice which becomes worse the more people take it. Not good.
Secondly, working more hours might decrease your efficiency in the long run, leading you to finishing less work than if you took the time to rest. If reduces your efficiency by just 10%, you’d already produce less value. While it’s unlikely to get that far by just 4 extra hours, you don’t get the full 26 extra days of productivity.
And if everybody were to follow this advice, always trying to work more than everybody else in order to stand out, we’d soon reach a point where people would produce less.
The advice is basically actively harmful to society.
Usually in this context the “work” part is learning new job skills, preparing plans, networking, and that sort of stuff. It could be actual work for your career, like preparing sales presentations for a sales person, or planning a big coding project for an engineering lead, but it could also be time spent educating yourself and building skills needed to get ahead. Everyone here gets so hung up on the people who were born privileged that they completely overlook the people who have actually worked their asses off to build a better life for themselves and their families.
In the context of “work” being further training or working towards credentials, ie working through community college or certification in your line of work, sure, but I don’t think that’s what this guy is actually saying
The big problem I have with this advice is that it can’t be scaled up to everbody. If everybody were to follow this advice, we’d have a situation where everbody works 4 extra unpaid hours and nobody stands out. Advice which becomes worse the more people take it. Not good.
Secondly, working more hours might decrease your efficiency in the long run, leading you to finishing less work than if you took the time to rest. If reduces your efficiency by just 10%, you’d already produce less value. While it’s unlikely to get that far by just 4 extra hours, you don’t get the full 26 extra days of productivity.
And if everybody were to follow this advice, always trying to work more than everybody else in order to stand out, we’d soon reach a point where people would produce less.
The advice is basically actively harmful to society.
Usually in this context the “work” part is learning new job skills, preparing plans, networking, and that sort of stuff. It could be actual work for your career, like preparing sales presentations for a sales person, or planning a big coding project for an engineering lead, but it could also be time spent educating yourself and building skills needed to get ahead. Everyone here gets so hung up on the people who were born privileged that they completely overlook the people who have actually worked their asses off to build a better life for themselves and their families.
In the context of “work” being further training or working towards credentials, ie working through community college or certification in your line of work, sure, but I don’t think that’s what this guy is actually saying