Work Ethic
topic on 4 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
the Knowledge Project 
Lenny's Podcast 
How I Built This
4 statements about Work Ethic, every show
Russ Walling: Learning to Work Hard Later in Life Is Very Difficult
“It's very, very hard to take somebody who doesn't have the experience of working hard and have them finally figure that out later in life.”
A Strong Work Ethic Requires an Equal Rest Ethic
“If you have a great work ethic that needs to be matched with a great rest ethic. And I think that, that kind of piece of actually training our capacity to downshift after stress Is just completely missing from most people's playbooks.”
Ohno: Combining innate predisposition and training yields the greatest work ethic
“I'm sure that there's some encoding of some DNA at some kind of a hard wiring level that enables you or your previous experiences that you've inherited. I would bet on that. I also believe it can be trained. It's obviously much different, right? So if your nat…”
Naficy: Banking analyst roles serve as the ultimate work ethic training ground
“I can't say that I love being a financial analyst. That, it is sort of like loving boot camp. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but you end up working very, very long hours but I will say it's a great training ground as to what work ethic really means, …”