Ethan Evans

And while you as a leader in a small company might be enlightened enough to say to somebody, hey, you're burning yourself out like.

I'd rather you dial it down and not burn out.

Big corporations are machines.

And if I'm paying you $100,000 and you'll work 50 hours, great.

But if you'll work 60, even better.

And if you work 70, why wouldn't I let you?

And the corporate machine doesn't have any sense of like, oh, you're working 110 and you're losing weight and you know...

The machine doesn't know.

And so you have to protect yourself and say, you know, 60 is my limit because the corporate machine will just say, this is a great deal.

You're working twice as much as anybody else for the same money.

I love it.

It will in fact lure you in because you'll say, oh, you're a high performer.

I'll give you a raise and a promotion.

And so it encourages you

Keep sacrificing your health and I'll keep paying and promoting you.

It will never stop and it will drive you.

It will let you drive yourself right off a cliff.

So you have to draw that line.

Well, most work is wasted.

So this is about calling your shots.