Hard Work is Overrated- Shaan Puri’s Controversial Rule #1
Who do you think works harder, a waiter or a dropshipper.
The world revolves around storytelling.
Everything you know about success (or failure, or religion, or passion, or love, or hate, or literally anything you know) is a story that the media, governments, society, and you have crafted.
Money is a story. Constitutions are stories. Brands are stories.
One such story — is hard work.
Shaan Puri is a goldmine of money-making and life-winning wisdom.
🕹 Former CEO of Bebo (sold to Twitch)
🎧 Host of My First Million podcast (10M downloads/year)
📈 Grew Twitter audience by +100k followers in 4 months through power writing tactics
📧 Founded Milk Road crypto newsletter (100,000+ subscribers in 4 months)
Past couple of months, he has dropped so many value bombs different from what the average podcast guy tells you.
In today’s letter, we’re gonna discuss Shaan Puri’s first controversial rule of success.
Hard work ain’t nothin’ brah!
It’s not what it seems like, guys.
Just to clarify,
Shaan never said that hard work is bad.
He says: it’s overrated.
Who do you think works more:
Waiter in a restaurant serving tables all day.
Founder of a 7 figure dropshipping store.
If you’re confused, well, the first one.
The waiter guy.
I think you already know who makes more
(The woman sitting on the laptop…..WORKING LESS than waiter….don’t tell anyone…sheeeshh..)
“Whatttt?
My parents lied to me?
My society lied to me?
My teachers lied to me?”
Okay, I trusted you with the secret, don’t need to shout.
Secondly,
Not exactly guys. They didn’t lie to you.
It’s just that they didn’t know themselves.
So, if hard work isn't the key to riches.
What is?
‘Project Selection’
Choosing the right project is the key.
In your life, there are 150,000 things you could do.
Most people do only one. some do two.
Or if you’re anything like Shaan, you’ll do 20.
But that’s it.
20 things in your life. (out of 150k)
Choose them wisely.
Naval Ravikant says:
Then why the hell does everyone scream ‘Work Hard’?
Because it’s fucking attractive.
It’s virtue signalling.
Hard work looks cool.
It makes you sound like a “total-self-made man”. (or woman)
People ignore stuff that isn’t in their control. It’s the convenient thing to do.
That’s why you’ll see models explaining her struggle story on reality shows (which is true, they did the struggles. But we never see her crediting her parents for the beauty genes.)
Cause those genes were not in her control. So….BOOM….she decided to ignore them.
Don’t misinterpret this.
Hard work is essential to success.
But you don’t need to break records by working hard and longer hours.
After choosing the right project, and the people you do it with, work ‘hard enough’ to execute that projec.
The importance priority:
What you work on > Who you work with > How hard you work.
How to choose what to work on?
Okay, Mr. Big mouth.
Enough with the surface-level stuff.
Just tell me how to choose what to work on?
Well, we’ll talk about that in the next post sir.
All in all, this was the first edition in ‘Shaan Puri’s Controversial Rules to Success’ series.
Do let me know if you like it. I have plans of continuing this series for at least 10 more editions.
Until then,
This is Shiven ‘Project Selection’ Dhania
Signing off.