How the Hustle Brag Phenomenon Is Hurting Your Mental Health

How many times has a coworker or friend complained about how many hours they worked that week, how many meetings they sat in that day, or how tired they were? It starts to feel like maybe they get a level of satisfaction out of bragging about how tired and busy they are.  A century ago, Americans worked 100 hours a week. Since then, the government has limited the workweek to 40 hours. But if you’re in a startup or in a client-oriented industry, sometimes 40 hours isn’t enough to get the work done. And once you hit that overtime, so begins the bragging.  Entrepreneurs need to know that more work doesn’t necessarily produce more results, and the workaholic mindset is a recipe for emotional and physical disaster. Hustle ‘Til You Drop Social media makes it easier than ever before for people to share every waking minute of their life. Today, countless entrepreneurs take to Instagram bragging about their nonstop work ethic. Oversharing on Instagram, however, can quickly lead to lost social capital. Now, the next generation of social media platforms — such as Snapchat and Periscope — enables users to share every minute of their lives, without bombarding users’ newsfeeds. Social media platforms come and go. It remains to be seen whether these newer social media platforms can survive. Meanwhile, the intuitive share-at-will nature of the platforms has created a whirlwind of sharing. Resultantly, entrepreneurs and thought leaders have flocked to next-gen...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Industrial and Workplace Stress Success & Achievement hustle Overworked professional Workaholic Source Type: blogs