Why you should work 90 hours a week

I don't know if you're already craving the weekend on Tuesday, but if you're smart, then you actually don't have a weekend. Never.

According to a high-ranking official at Tesla, you might as well just work 90 or 100 hours a week. Sweat. Work yourself to the bone. That quickly adds up to about 14 hours a day, seven days a week. That's what that guy at Tesla has done, and he also thinks that more employees should just do that, work that much. Or, well, he actually doesn't think it's too much. With 40 measly hours a week, you won't get anywhere. Now that he's reasonably successful, he takes it easy with about 80 hours a week. Sometimes. But if possible, he prefers those 90 hours. Seriously.

Uh, yeah, why? Because only then can you really achieve success. If we are to believe the experts at the top. You can laugh it off and dismiss it, but honestly: they are at the top. Moreover, if you do what you enjoy, a long day at work doesn't feel like a long day at all. Friends you do have to cancel for good, but then you have something. That career. That great success. Those five or six zeros in your bank account.

A passion is nice, but if you don't put all your free time into it, you'll never realize that ultimate career dream. Cute, that hobby, but it doesn't change lives. You're not on the cover of a magazine. No one knows your name. That's a bit of the lesson we learn. And the only way to get there is by working hard, which isn't bad at all. But hallelujah, working 100 hours every week, how unsociable... No Netflix. No social media. No shopping. No friends. No family. Working and sleeping. Eating in between, just to survive. Well, the choice is yours, so to speak.

We do value a bit of social life too. Because then you have that success, right? All that money. All that fame. That top position. That own business. That movie in which you play the lead role. That groundbreaking idea. That magazine with your own face on it. With whom do you drink your champagne to toast to it?