Comments on: 3 Ways to Gauge Your Mental Health in Business http://corymiller.com/3-ways-to-gauge-your-mental-health-in-business/ Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:32:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Alec http://corymiller.com/3-ways-to-gauge-your-mental-health-in-business/comment-page-1/#comment-817 Alec Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:20:05 +0000 http://corymiller.com/?p=812#comment-817 Work life balance is always an issue when building a startup. Don't expect balance at the beginning. Here's what <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html" rel="nofollow">Paul Graham has to say on startups</a>: <blockquote>I used to work till 2:00 or 3:00 AM every night, seven days a week. I don't know if I could do that now.... My final test may be the most restrictive. Do you actually want to start a startup? What it amounts to, economically, is compressing your working life into the smallest possible space. Instead of working at an ordinary rate for 40 years, you work like hell for four. And maybe end up with nothing-- though in that case it probably won't take four years.</blockquote> I think this may be the sad truth, despite Tim Ferriss's pretty lies. Work life balance is always an issue when building a startup. Don’t expect balance at the beginning.

Here’s what Paul Graham has to say on startups:

I used to work till 2:00 or 3:00 AM every night, seven days a week. I don’t know if I could do that now….

My final test may be the most restrictive. Do you actually want to start a startup? What it amounts to, economically, is compressing your working life into the smallest possible space. Instead of working at an ordinary rate for 40 years, you work like hell for four. And maybe end up with nothing– though in that case it probably won’t take four years.

I think this may be the sad truth, despite Tim Ferriss’s pretty lies.

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