Hustling won’t make you happy, says Yale expert—try this instead
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Stay on your grind. Hustle harder. Sleep is for the rich.
If money buys happiness, it makes sense to work as hard as possible to get rich so you can end up feeling good. But that couldn’t be further from the truth, says Laurie Santos, the psychology professor behind Yale University’s most popular course and host of the podcast “The Happiness Lab.”
“So many of us think, ‘I’m going to put my head down and avoid social connection, whether it’s at work or in my life, and I’m just going to hustle and get stuff done,’” Santos says. “That’s just totally wrong.”
Instead of overworking, Santos recommends that you prioritize your well-being and personal relationships to live a more fulfilled life.
“You need sleep, you need rest and you need connection with other people” to be happy, Santos says. “Those are the things that are going to matter.”
Research backs her up: “Social fitness” is the No. 1 key to a happy life, Marc Schulz and Robert Waldinger, directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, wrote for Make It in February.
“Social fitness requires taking stock of our relationships, and being honest with ourselves about where we’re devoting our time and whether we are tending to the connections that help us thrive,” Schulz and Waldinger wrote.
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How to climb the corporate ladder, according to a CEO
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If you ask Ryan Simonetti, CEO of hospitality company Convene, advancing in your career means taking on projects beyond the scope of your role — especially when your company is in a bind.
When an opportunity to take on new and pressing work arises, “put your hand up,” he says.
Not only does volunteering in such a way offer critical help, it gives you an opportunity to learn and accrue more skills. The people who’ve raised their hands at Convene have consistently continued learning, says Simonetti, “and that’s created opportunities for them professionally.”
It’s that “I want to learn, I’m curious and I’m willing to do the work attitude” that “has paid real dividends” for people at his company, especially for younger employees, says Simonetti.
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How I Built A $400 Million Food Delivery Company Called Caviar
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Shawn Tsao, 34, co-founded food delivery app Caviar in 2012 with four of his college classmates and fraternity brothers from the University of California, Berkeley. It sold to DoorDash in 2019 for $410 million.
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The No. 1 counterintuitive strategy for making tough decisions
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Sequoia Capital managing partner Roelof Botha has a strategy for making tough decisions.
The longtime venture capital investor honed it through decades of experience helping early stage tech companies like YouTube and Instagram grow into industry giants. He repeatedly watched CEOs get stuck when trying to choose between two options, and it taught him a lesson.
“If you find yourself deciding between only two choices, maybe you need to widen the aperture,” Botha said on Sequoia’s “Crucible Moments” podcast, in a recent episode featuring billionaire entrepreneur Jack Dorsey.
“Is there a third or fourth option that you haven’t even considered that you need to throw into the mix to really test whether that is the right path?”
This method is backed by science: On average, people are 22% more likely to choose the strongest course of action when they compare all their options at once, rather than examining each one sequentially, according to 2017 research.
That holds true for both big and small decisions — whether you’re choosing between colleges, laptops or pizza restaurants, the study found.
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