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PS: In order to vary my content, I am starting a myth-busting series where I address common high-achiever myths and beliefs and explain why they are unhealthy mentalities. If you enjoy reading this article, feel free to send me other myths or specific topics you want me to address! I will leave a survey for myths at the end of part 2, which will be sent later this week.
“If I work all day and night now, I’ll be able to have a balanced, picture perfect life a few years in the future,” you tell yourself while you stare at your computer with dark eyebags, sleep deprived.
See the contrast between the goal and the reality in the present? Telling yourself this is the equivalent of eating sodium-filled, unhealthy foods for decades and saying you’ll change your habits later in life – once you’ve already developed life-threatening hypertension.
Let me explain why.
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Part 1: “Sacrifice Now, Balance Later”
Firstly, this mindset leads straight to constant, chronic overworking; the topic of my previous article. As I mentioned there, similar to how cardiac hypertrophy (thickening of the heart muscle) starts as a compensatory action but slowly becomes deadly, overworking yourself gradually becomes exhaustion, loss of efficiency and focus, burnout, and possibly even karoshi (death by overworking).
How does this relate to the myth referenced above? Well, while you neglect rest, isolate yourself, and satisfy your perfectionistic demands, you are destroying the successful future you’re seeking to create. So, in the end, you will never gain future balance from your sacrifices, but instead future physical and mental pain; a life worse than both the present reality and the desired future reality.
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But it is not just the effects of overworking that prove the falsity in this myth…
To be continued :)