Modern Wisdom · 2026-01-15 · 133 min · 24,952 words

Can Ambitious People Ever Have Balance? - Russ - #1046

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You were talking about work-life balance and your inability to have it. Yeah. Um, man, I mean, balance is just, it's a luxury now. It's a privilege. You can't have it on the way up.

It just has to be full, 100% commitment to the grind. So now I'm trying to have more balance, but the guilt is there, you know, still. Like. It's just that PTSD of like, I shouldn't be relaxing right now, you know? It's a difficult question to work out.

You know, almost everybody's on the come up. By by design, very few people make it or have made it. Right. There's way more people that want to be there than are there. And that means first off that it's a sort of an icky situation because the total addressable market for people who need to learn how to put their take their foot off the gas is basically zero.

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