Why Hustle Culture Is Silently Rewiring Your Brain
For many years ago, I bought right into the efficiency hype.
I read the bestsellers. Listened to the podcasts. And took the recommendations to heart.
Attempted the morning regimens that promised to transform me into a high-performing device. (They really did not)
I even tracked my rest like it was a supply portfolio. If my performance had not been rising, I was failing or at least failing.
Silicon Valley’s performance culture didn’t just shake its means into my calendar. It went straight for my brain and re-shaped it.
And I’m not the just one that births the scars of attempting to be impossibly efficient.
We stay in a world where “doing more” is an ethical merit, not a transgression.
Where getting up at 4: 30 a.m. to practice meditation, journal, cold plunge, and knock senseless three hours of deep work before breakfast is in some way aspirational.