The Multi-millionaire host of MyFirstMillion, Shaan Puri gives a lot of controversial rules for success.
Some agree with them. Some hate him for them.
One of those rules is: Hardwork is overrated.
I summarized hours and hours of his content on hard-work into this short 45-sec read.
Do you agree with Shaan or not? The comment section’s yours.
https://shivendhania.substack.com/p/hard-work-is-overrated-shaan-puris
(I’ve also pasted the post below)
The world revolves around storytelling.
Everything you know about success (or failure, or religion, or passion, or love, or hate, or literally anything you know) is a story that the media, governments, society, and you have crafted.
Money is a story. Constitutions are stories. Brands are stories.
One such story — is hard work.
Hard work ain’t nothin’ brah!
It’s not what it seems like, guys.
Just to clarify,
Shaan never said that hard work is bad.
He says: it’s overrated.
Who do you think works more:
- Waiter in a restaurant serving tables all day.
- Founder of a 7 figure dropshipping store.
Well, the first one.
I think you already know who makes more
(The second one……WHO’S WORKING LESS….don’t tell anyone…sheeeshh…)
“Whatttt?
My parents lied to me?
My society lied to me?
My teachers lied to me?”
Not exactly guys. They didn’t lie to you.
They didn’t know themselves.
So, if hard work isn’t the key to riches.
What is?
‘Project Selection’
Choosing the right project.
In your life, there are 150,000 things you could do.
Most people do only one.or two
Or if you’re anything like Shaan, you’ll do 20.
But that’s it.
Choose them wisely.
Naval Ravikant says:
“What you choose to work on, and who you work with is far more important than how hard you work”
Then why the hell does everyone scream ‘Work Hard’?
Because it’s fucking attractive.
It’s virtue signalling.
Hard work looks cool.
It makes you sound like a “total-self-made man”. (or woman)
Don’t misinterpret this.
Hard work is essential to success.
But you don’t need to break records by working hard and longer hours.
After choosing the right project, and the people you do it with, work ‘hard enough’ to execute that projec.
The importance priority:
What you work on > Who you work with > How hard you work.
I’ll do posts on Shaan’s other controversial rules
What are your thoughts on this? Is Shaan Right? or Not?
Dumb dumb dumb.
Waiter and founder story? The founder in question is ex-post successful (i.e. he already founded a 7-figure company). So massive selection bias. Also the selection of a waiter is problematic, since that’s an hourly job in which it’s impossible to get rich. What about an investment banker? They work hard AND they get paid. Probably more than the average founder (as long we don’t only look at the successful ones after the fact).
Project selection. Undoubtedly important, especially again in an ex-post analysis. But it’s not really an either or between project selection and hard work now is it? Is the argument really that if you pick the right project then you don’t need to work hard?? I think you’d probably maximize your success if you choose the right project AND worked bloody hard. (Later on he seems to admit as much and says that “hard work is essential to success”. Uh ok…)
Why does everyone scream work hard? Lots of reasons here and it’s partly an American thing. But even in the USA, the younger generation Z seem to be increasingly rejecting the single-minded focus on career and work of previous generations. We’ll see if this holds but not clear that everyone is screaming work hard.
So basically setup up a couple of stupid initial examples (or maybe they are “stories”) and then climbs down to a mild statement that project selection is important (without providing any insights on how to do this) as well as working with good people and ends up saying pretty much what he criticizes everyone as doing, namely “hard work is essential”.
Even in this condensed version, it’s a waste of people time. Kindly do the needful and don’t summarize more of this dude’s drivel!