Last month, a 22-year-old entrepreneur named Emil Barr published a Wall Street Journal op-ed boasting a provocative title: “‘Work-Life Balance’ Will Keep You Mediocre.”
He opens with a spicy take: "I'm 22 and I've built two companies that together are valued at more than $20 million… When people ask how I did it, the answer isn't what they expect—or want—to hear. I eliminated work-life balance entirely and just worked. When you front-load success early, you buy the luxury of choice for the rest of your life."
As Barr elaborates, when starting his first company, he slept only 3.5 hours per night. "The physical and mental toll was brutal: I gained 80 pounds, lived on Red Bull and struggled with anxiety," he writes. "But this level of intensity was the only way to build a multimillion-dollar company."
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