There’s an insane amount of hype around hustle these days, from Gary V. telling you not to sleep to shaming instagram posts about how easy it is for some of us to “just be productive.”
On the show today we break down this trend, talk about why it’s happening and how your drive to hustle is actually hurting you.
“You can’t sprint a marathon. Here’s why HUSTLE is HURTING you. #AntiHustle”
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ERMAGHERD!! I heart this so hard my bear hug will crack your spine. I’m a recovering hustle addict and love the candid B.S.-calling. Hard work is a necessary ingredient, but a hamster running his heart out is still just spinning on a wheel. Keep up the good work!
This show is a must listen to for EVERYONE! I am an endurance coach and personal trainer. I think I work more on telling people to take it easy and recover than anything else.
A friend of mine had leukemia. She told me once, “I used to work three jobs, never sleep, and had all kinds of energy.”, I pointed out, yeah, but now you have leukemia. My friend lost her battle with cancer. I think sometimes when people say “I will sleep when I am dead”, don’t realize that it might actually happen.
Many people forget that our bodies go through a process of breakdown and recovery. We only get stronger on the recovery. Too much breakdown leaves us broken.
Ok, I’ve have a lot to say about this podcast so let’s get started.
First, I’m a big Gary Vaynerchuk fan and I’ve been following him for quite awhile and I only mention him here because that was part of your hook for this podcast.
I think when you mention Gary and how he views the word hustle that it can often be taken out of context unless you’ve been following him for awhile. He doesn’t say, be like me…he says know yourself. Get to know who you are and find out what works for you, this is what works for me.
Alot of people who follow GaryVee love to try and live their lives vicariously through other people so they love watching the behind the scenes of how Gary hustles. In a sense I feel that it make them feel like they are hustling because they ask questions, watch his videos and buy his books but never take any action.
What I think Gary really tries to do with his show and with his life is to encourage people to stop waiting on Gadot. Get outside of your comfort zone and do something magnificent with your life and stop looking for the magic bullet. Stop wanting the easy button and find the work around for the existing circumstances in your life.
The urban dictionary defines hustle as “Anythin you need to do to make money… be it sellin cars, drugs, ya body. If you makin money, you hustlin.”
I know the word tends to have negative connotations and when you read your definition on the show you said you wanted nothing to do with what Webster’s dictionary definition of hustle was. I get that.
The word hustle is frequently used within the black community because typically many of us have had very little to work with and when you guys talk about bootstrapping that means a totally different thing within the hood.
I thought your comments about Jay-Z was a bit cruel too since you really aren’t qualified to speak about what hustling means to us. The old saying unless you have walked a mile in my shoes then you know not what I experience so it’s better to remain silent.
I’m telling you hustling and grinding are motivating factors within the black community many times albeit some of the activities aren’t always legal.
Hustling is not all bad and neither is anti-hustle, there is room for both of them to co-exist. If you don’t have the tolerance for hustle in your life how can you really appreciate anti-hustle?
Of course when you are trying to disprove a point you can recite all the evidence to support your case or theory. I really felt that the way you presented the information was not very objective and a bit one-sided.
You make some good points as well. I believe that you can have two approaches to life, one is with brute force and the other is with finesse. One way you are working in the flow of things while the other you are moving upstream.
Many times people that are hustling are out of alignment with who they truly are and really have no direction. They are searching for things outside of themselves hoping to experience happiness but they never do.
There’s a book called the Lazy Way to Success, How To Do Nothing and Accomplish Everything by Fred Gratzon. The book is more than a decade old and hardly anyone I meet has ever heard of it.
When you read the title one would conclude that Fred is talking about the way to achieve success is through laziness but it’s the exact opposite. It’s perhaps not the best title in the world but the subject matter is incredible if you’re able to really connect with what the author is saying.
I think Fred would agree with your anti-hustle theory but for an entirely different reason.
Seth Godin would probably ask this question…What are you hustling for? Because ultimately is that not the real question? Because if you say that you ‘re hustling because you want to be successful now we have to define what success means to you.
I love you guys and your show and of course I don’t always agree with you say but I think you should be willing to admit sometimes that you may be way off in left field with your opinions, assertions and conclusions about a particular subject matter.
Let me end this by sharing something with you that I hope all of you can appreciate. It’s something I’ve felt very strongly about for a long time. It really happened to me after I watch the movie Tuesday’s With Morrie with Jack Lemmon and read the book with the same name by Mitch Albom.
“If you spend all day working (hustling), if spend all day at the gym trying to get buff or in front of the mirror trying to put on make-up wanting to be beautiful. If you spend all day trying to get on the list of this or that, the top 100, become famous, become known, or get on a magazine cover.
When you die you’d better plan on being 100% dead, dead with a capital “D” because your money (no matter how much you have) they’re just going to fight over it after you’re gone – they always do (look at Prince).
Your beautiful body (no matter how buff or fine or sexy you are) is going to rot in the ground right next to fat guy or ugly girl.
Your list of accomplishments (no matter how impressive) will pale in comparison to the next hotshot who comes along.
But the one thing that you have/had that makes you distinctly you is that voice that’s inside of you. This voice is what you need to spend your time giving away. If you are too busy hustling, taking, and not giving your gift away to feel alive then what was your life ultimately for?
Rick Out!
Damn Rick, this is clearly important to you and I think your comment deserves a response. Hustling means different things to different people. For many, I think it’s a state of mind and a way of life. If the constant hustle works for you, that’s great, do what works for you! We were simply trying to present an alternative point of view, one that questions whether hustling is sustainable, and whether the people who talk about hustling so much are actually walking the walk (some yes, Gary V. and Jay-Z seem to genuinely work harder than most, but many others are poseurs). On top of that, the bigger question for us is, even if hustling is sustainable for you, what do you miss out on in life because of your obsession with working so hard in pursuit of fame and money? Is fame and fortune really the point? For most, the answer is no, and in that case “hustle” is better as a short-term occasional strategy than an ongoing way of life.
Damn Corbett, don’t you want the things you talk about to be important to your listeners? If you read my entire post I didn’t say I ascribed to the whole hustling mentality. I thought you guys made some very valid points but I felt your arguments against hustling were heavily skewed. I’m sure you knew when you decided to do the episode that hustling means different things to different people so that’s not really the point. I’m not necessarily of the hustling mentality but I see no need to call out those who are. The way I see it nobody does anything inappropriate given their model of the world.
Good thoughts, Rick. I appreciate you sharing this here.
you had me at #antihustle
Chase gave up caffeine ?
I’m giving up my phone….#myphonelimitsme
WELL DONE FIZZLE CO !!
haha I know right! Makes me question my coffee love :)
Great stuff guys :)
And that video at the bottom is EPIC! Haha
I’m EPIC. I think I was just born with it. Thanks, @kylemusserco:disqus :-)
haha that you are my friend ;) (emoji clap x 10)
This was a timely and AMAZING episode, because it goes against so much of what is out there. I can’t say anything to add to what you have done. I do offer some additional resources to flesh out a few things you guys said.
Chase – your comment about spending more time walking and kind of working things out in your head. Not sure if you’ve read Adam Grant’s new book “Originals” yet or not. His new TED talk on this same topic speaks about how purposely procrastinating results in more creative results. Here’s the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers
And the discussion about not always knowing what the next thing is, and being okay with the unknown? Seth Godin’s talk with Chase Jarvis: http://repeatube.com/watch?v=6xMxAZhgVvU It is in the last 5-10 minutes of the interview.
Thanks again! Kathleen
I ran the family business. unfortunately it was not an olive oil import business, instead a small town flower shop. The best thing was at the point i took over it didn’t make money, but needed to. There is a threshold of income that must be reached before the luxury of the journey can be considered. By the time this point comes you can be so ingrained in the how things are done or always have been done that you can’t see it. In the end I stayed until all other family members retired then sold the place off, now I find myself hesitant to dive back in to the business world, probably because of the full knowledge of the DOR, IRS, Health dept,, building depts, etc. As for hustle, it is all at what stage you are at or business you are in, I know “florist shop that must be so fulfilling”, but that’s another story. You can’t tell a bricklayer to lay lighter brick or accountant to blow of April 15th, but you can teach him to delegate, hire a crew, and have some faith in employees, a lesson I wished I had learned earlier.
Thanks for the insights, I am trying to rework my way of thinking about work while preparing to jump on into the pond again,
Brian.
“By the time this point comes you can be so ingrained in the how things are done or always have been done that you can’t see it.” Wow, I can imagine that. Thanks, Brian!
LOL! “Just having a smoothie on a Sunday!” Great lesson over all and it’s something I STRUGGLE with all the time! I’m trying so hard to slow down because I keep burning out.
This just might be my favourite show yet – and I don’t say that lightly! I did miss Barrett though. :)
The relentless message that we must be ‘hustling’ and pursuing ‘the hustle’ is leading to questionable behaviour all around us. Guess what, that puts many potential customers off – we’re tired of being sold all the time.
Make something worthwhile, refine it, make it the best it can be and network. Work hard to get your message/product out there but don’t cross the line.
I’m on board for the ‘Anti-Hustle’ movement.
p.s. I think a complete show of Chase talking about the ‘aliens’ would be required listening.
Great podcast! Time is everyone’s enemy! I’ve learned to do the top priorities first (money-making stuff) and then if my day goes to sh*t then its okay. It’s so funny that you say that about Gary (who I love BTW) the last few times I saw him on an interview I was thinking damn that dude needs some sleep or some botox or something. There is a such thing as running yourself in the ground then we are no good to anyone!