Scott Galloway

Now for me, it was worth it.

And there's always a risk you work that hard and you don't get there.

And then you're like, that's really a bummer.

But I decided the one thing I could control was how hard I worked.

And I made that sacrifice.

And most importantly, I had alignment with my partner that that's what we were going to do.

And she was very supportive of that.

But it comes at a cost.

I think you just got to sit down with your partner, establish what is really important to you, recognizing the realities of capitalist society where there's a lot of things that are just going to be easier for you and your kids if you have a certain amount of economic security.

That comes at a... In order to achieve that, it requires real sacrifice and real trade-offs.

And I just think you have to have sober conversation.

And what I find a little bit disheartening sometimes when I talk to young people is I ask them how much money they expect to be making at 30 or 35.

And some of this is proximity bias because the kids I'm around are very ambitious at a business school.

But I'd say 80% of them expect to be in the top 10%, if not the top 1%.

And then they use the word balance.

I mean...

bitch, unless you're smart enough to be born, smart enough to have rich parents, get over that.

I don't know anyone who gets to the top 10%, much less the top 1%, without making a huge sacrifice in their relationships, their health, their quality of life, their mental well-being.

Shit is hard.

You know, work is really, there's a lot of, there's,