Burnout or Burnouts - Your Job is to Work Harder than Everyone Else - What Did You Expect

Burnout or Burnouts - Your Job is to Work Harder than Everyone Else - What Did You Expect

Episode Transcript

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As per usual, let's check outthe High Growth Handbook and today's topic brought
to you by e Land Gil.He's talking to Andreeson Howitz, not Andreson
Howards he's talking to. He's talkingto Mark Andresen, one of the guys
who built Injuries and Howitz, andthis today's topic is something that is close
to my heart. Quote A commontrigger of founder burnout is finding yourself working

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on things you hate by Eland Gill. One of the mistakes I've made in
my first two and a half yearsas CEO of Colored Genomics, this is
Mark Andresen talking, was that myvacations often were not real vacations. A
CEO's energy level dictates those of theteam. You should find time to take

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vacations and truly be offline, otherwiseyou will lose energy, burnout and potentially
give up. You know why thisspeaks so strongly to my heart because I
am the master of getting burned out, and my perspective on burnout is not
going to be one that anyone shouldemulate. I don't ever worry about burnout.

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It just happens, and does ittake me a week, sometimes a
couple weeks to come out of thatfunk and kind of rejuvenate and renew myself
so that I can get back tosixteen twenty hour days. Absolutely, that's
just the nature of the beast.And so while I have read copious amounts

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of books, guides, ideas,methods, frameworks, rubrics of how to
not get burned out, I sayall of that is horseshite. If you
are an operator, if you arean entrepreneur and you have a dream that
you are trying to build, guesswhat. No one's going to build that
dream for you. No one's goingto work as hard as you to build

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that dream. Frankly, there's noone in the world that that's going to
lift their finger say you know what, I'd like to work except only hard
to build your goals. Never happened, said nobody ever. And so if
you want to achieve that which youwant to achieve, you must work harder
than everyone else. You must workfourteen, sixteen twenty hour days to get

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there. Will that end up creatingan unsustainable pace where you will eventually get
burned out. Welcome, Welcome tothe fray. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
Welcome. You know Mark and recentsays this a CEO's energy levels dictate
those of the team. You betterbelieve it. That's why you as the

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operator, as the idea generator,the person who has this idea of leading
this team as a first time managersmaybe as first time operator, first time
entrepreneur, you dictate the levels ofthe team, which means you will work
fourteen sixteen twenty hours a day andemulate and model that so that everyone else
in your company can work likewise.Now, they're not going to match your

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energy levels. They're not going tomatch your fourteen sixteen twenty hours a day
because they're building your dream. Butyou want to emulate that. Some people
would say, oh, Peter,you're creating a culture of unsustainable pace.
Welcome to startups, baby. Youhave investment. Let's say it's a million
dollars. That million dollars is burningdown every day. You have a limited

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time, which means you need towork your butt off. Am I wrong?
Am I wrong? I find thatall of the ideas around trying to
not get burned out useless platitudes.You're trying to build something. You have
what seventy six, seventy seven,seventy nine years of life. But I

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get to it my friends,