How to overcome the hustle culture paradigm?

[Pedro M]

My intuition tells me in the back of my mind that there's more to life than this. Life is bigger than just pursuing your goals and ignoring the other aspects of life. But my rational side tells me I should do this for a long time (ignoring everything else and focusing on my goals). I believe I'm open to listening, and insights that prove me wrong would probably be beneficial. But perhaps the solution is for me to be patient and reach a point in my life when my rational side and intuition agree to slow down all this effort, but I don't think that moment has arrived yet.

[Leo Gura]

At your stage of development grinding might be the right thing, for a time.

However, eventually you'll realize that no matter how hard you grind and how many material goals you complete, you will be no more happy or satisfied than you are now. Even less satisfied because now the illusion of goals making you happy will be shattered.

If you want real progress you need to work on changing your internal relationship to reality. That's the only thing that will change your condition.

Of course if you are just looking to break free of wage slavery, hustle culture has its purpose. But once you are free of wage slavery you will still be exactly the same slave of your mind that you are today.

I've spent so many years achieving goals that today the prospect of pursuing a material goal hardly interests me. My only goal now is higher consciousness of God. But it took me 10-20 years of work to get here.

Edited Saturday at 04:04 PM by Leo Gura

[joeyi99]

I wonder what keeps Warren Buffet going...

[Miguel1]

Leo is correct here. I have personally put my serious spiritual work on pause, so I can fully work on financial freedom.

Master your survival, otherwise it will come back and bite you later.

[Miguel1]

36 minutes ago, joeyi99 said:

I wonder what keeps Warren Buffet going...

Illusion

[freddyteisen]

@Leo Gura Bookmarked this answer. Very valuable to remember. Changing your internal relationship to reality is the most important, even though materialistic pursuits also has its place.

[Pedro M]

On 02/08/2025 at 1:01 PM, Leo Gura said:

At your stage of development grinding might be the right thing, for a time.

However, eventually you'll realize that no matter how hard you grind and how many material goals you complete, you will be no more happy or satisfied than you are now. Even less satisfied because now the illusion of goals making you happy will be shattered.

If you want real progress you need to work on changing your internal relationship to reality. That's the only thing that will change your condition.

Of course if you are just looking to break free of wage slavery, hustle culture has its purpose. But once you are free of wage slavery you will still be exactly the same slave of your mind that you are today.

I've spent so many years achieving goals that today the prospect of pursuing a material goal hardly interests me. My only goal now is higher consciousness of God. But it took me 10-20 years of work to get here.

Very good. I appreciate it.

[Pedro M]

On 02/08/2025 at 5:05 PM, Miguel1 said:

Leo is correct here. I have personally put my serious spiritual work on pause, so I can fully work on financial freedom.

Master your survival, otherwise it will come back and bite you later.

I've done this in the past, but for me it has to have at least something related to spiritual work, even if it's just meditation sessions. Although Leo says it's not as effective as other practices, I use it for anxiety and other issues.

[PenguinPablo]

On 8/2/2025 at 3:05 PM, Miguel1 said:

Illusion

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