The Relationship Between Hard Work and Happiness
6/20/202610 min
In this episode of the GaryVee Audio Experience, I discuss the staggering reality that work occupies 50% of your waking adult life and why doing something you hate for material items is a losing game. I also dive deep into why self-awareness and ignoring the "noise" of outside judgment are the ultimate keys to long-term fulfillment.
You’ll learn about:
- The connection between work ethic and addressing unhappiness
- How to build extreme self-awareness by accepting your flaws
- The importance of loving the process over material rewards
- Why excuses are poison to your progress
- How to stop being crippled by the opinions of others
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsGary Vaynerchuk· Host0:00
This is the Gary Vee Audio Experience. [gentle music] I'm like, man, I haven't done a good enough job clarifying that when I talk about work ethic, I'm trying to speak to people who are unhappy or complaining. If I could get people to think about their careers the way they feel about waking up in the morning and running for that hour, where they clear their stress, they love it... I hate running, so that doesn't work for me. But, like, for me, working is the happy place, and I want that for everybody because the big thing is I don't think people have really quantified how many hours of their adult life is actually working. Like, think about how much work takes up the time that you're awake. So a lot of people are like, "Oh, I work nine hours a day." I'm like, yeah, but you also sleep nine hours a day, so that means you work nine hours a day, and then everything else you do while you're awake is only six hours. Travel, shower. Like, work is a lot of your life. Fuck, man, do I want you to want to like it and live it and, like, enjoy it. It's a lot, dude. Yeah. Like, even if you work 9:00 to 5:00, if you work eight hours a day and you sleep eight hours a day, that means work is 50% of every hour of your whole day for 40 years of your life. Like, why the fuck are you doing something you hate? Make less