Hard work is not the problem. It never was. We had a generation that went to the battlefield, the ones who worked hard on the farm, the ones who worked every day and night at the factory.

You have been in both kinds,, and you don’t need anyone to tell you the difference. The meeting that drains announces itself right from the invite

Your brain is not a machine. It does not run at a constant speed from 9 am to 5 pm; in infact, till 9 pm for founders and operators. It does not maintain the same quality of thought across an eight-hour workday. It does not have an off switch that you flip when a meeting invite arrives.