At 23, I’ve become a multi-millionaire and built two $20 million dollar companies by refusing to believe in work-life balance. This is the only truth I live by: your 20s are the cheapest years you’ll ever have to buy your 40s.
Career advisors, HR departments, and most of the internet will tell a twenty-something to protect their work-life balance at all costs. It’s framed as the mature, responsible choice, when it’s really the mechanism that keeps a person standing in the same place at 40 that they occupied at 25, because every hour spent protecting a comfortable life is an hour that didn’t go toward building a different one.
