Fraser: Work-life balance is flawed because health and family are part of work
Rob Fraser · Rob Fraser: The Power of Focus · Oct 15, 2024 · at 48:11
Rob Fraser, founder of Outway, argues that entrepreneurs cannot maintain conventional work-life balance and must reframe physical fitness and personal relationships as essential inputs to high performance.
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“I hate the concept of it in entrepreneurship, you know, like for an, like a salaried worker, like sure, like balance should be, you know, something that you're thinking about, but in particular in sport or high performance careers or something that you're doing, it's like, you need to tilt the scale in your favor, right? And that's by definition, no balance. However, I think what gets missed here is that part of the work for an entrepreneur, like an athlete is like your health and your personal relationships. If those aren't In a good spot, you're not operating at a hundred percent efficiency. And so that's part of the work, right?”
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