My Life Strategy has Always Been to Cope with Stress by Working Hard

But now I realize that you can definitely over do hard work and while overworking might provide you with more money and success it can also halt some positive things by taking up too much of your time or providing an opportunity to avoid things.
Is there anything in your life that you find to be both a positive and a negative or that you wish you could learn to balance out better?

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orioninthenight · M

This is actually a very underrated strategy. I have a similar mentality and it has actually taken me very far. For example lots of people talk about networking to find work. I never ever got jackshit done in my career by networking. Everything worthwhile has been achieved by simply brute force effort and winning the competition for the job by getting everything on the checklist.

People can fuck around trying to cheat the system but I have always come through by just playing by the rules and just winning the fair game outright.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@orioninthenight You sound like a very determined hard working man. Very admirdmable.
But make sure to balance.