Hustle Culture Is Killing Us.

When are we going to care enough?

When are we going to care enough?

“What are you doing with your life?”

The title of a multi-million selling book; also, an enquiry I use to hold myself accountable.

Day in, day out. ‘The grind’. The slog. Inertia. Are you languishing (too)?

At work and in the world more broadly, we know that our ways of living and being aren’t (pardon the pun) working — don’t we?

If we don’t know, we sure do talk a lot about it — or at least, we talk around it.

We know that Mental Health, Burnout, Motivation and Purpose are Important and Meaningful Topics, and we like to showcase how in touch we are with the zeitgeist — often, as loudly as possible. It’s cool, and we’re cool, and it makes us feel connected and important.

But this isn’t new. It may have been getting worse and/or gaining prominence, but it isn’t new.

We’ve known that something is very, very wrong for longer than we’ve been talking about it. We’ve known it because we’ve felt it.

We’re tired. Overwhelmed. Anxious. Listless. Frantic. Pushing. Pulli…