There's nothing wrong with having higher priorities in your life than work, at all. But we need to be realistic about what those tradeoffs mean. We have limited hours, and the way we choose to allocate our time has consequences.
Absolutely agree. Just watched the first five minutes of that clip you linked and I 100% agree.
Jonathan is an inspiring person that had a huge impact on my personal trajectory.
If you want to be a top notch programmer/artist/craftsman, you need to put in the hours.
I had to come to terms with this when I realized that I was not going to be a famous musician, because I didn’t put in the hours.
Now that I have kids, my priorities shifted and I want to put in the hours with my kids. Which means, I won’t put them into anything else. And I am mostly fine with that.
If someone else chooses differently, that’s their choice to make. With the accompanying consequences.
If you want to put in 60-80 hours a week into your work, that means that you won’t spend those 60-80 hours with your kids.
You might end up in history books, but that might mean you didn’t celebrate your kids scoring their first goal along the way.
But I agree with the sentiment of creating urgency in sizable chunks. Good read, thanks.