Does Work-Life Balance Make You Mediocre?
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Last month, a 22-year-old entrepreneur named Emil Barr published a _Wall Street Journal_ op-ed boasting a provocative title: “‘Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre.”
“I’m 22 and I’ve built two companies that together are valued at more than $20 million…When people ask how I did it, the answer isn’t what they expect—or want—to hear. I eliminated work-life balance entirely and just worked. When you front-load success early, you buy the luxury of choice for the rest of your life.”
As Barr elaborates, when starting his first company, he slept only three and a half hours per night. “The physical and mental toll was brutal: I gained 80 pounds, lived on Red Bull and struggled with anxiety,”…
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