# When 100 Workweek Isn’t Enough

Source: https://geoffblades.com/100-hour-workweek-isnt-enough/
Published: 2019-11-16
Updated: 2019-12-07
Author: Geoff

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*You’ve just gotta work harder.*

*Hustle, hustle, hustle. *

*Grind, grind, grind. *

*No, it’s not just about working harder, it’s about working smarter…*

Ugh, whatever.

We’ve heard it all before.

## What If There Are No More Hours?

To work harder?

To work smarter?

And you’re still not winning, what do you do?

That was the problem I faced.

Working hard is easy for me.

100 hours a week, whatever.

I’ve worked 7 days since I was 16.

Working smarter. Duh!

But what if it’s still not enough?

## That’s Where I Found Myself Stuck

Getting started on this stupid goal.

Write a book.

Drive these ideas into the world.

It all seemed straight forward at the time.

I’d read enough so-so books to know there was a massive need.

And enough that I’d convinced myself I was an expert.

I’d used all this work to drive my career on Wall Street.

And transform my career and life.

I could quote Emerson with the best of them.

But taking on this mission I quickly learned.

## I Wasn’t Good Enough

I’d solved a lot of things.

Like a hard question for many of us—*How do you figure out what you want?*

I’d built a powerful system to get it.

But none of that helped me when I felt stuck in a goal that was way too hard for me.

Going at it 7 days 100 hours like a maniac wasn’t enough.

In fact, like a car out of fluid, it was seizing my engine.

Grinding my gears.

Blowing my gaskets.

Spinning my wheels.

And every other lame auto metaphor you can think of 🙂

## I Needed More

More than working harder.

More than working smarter.

More than hustle hustle hustle.

I needed to, well, actually get better.

At doing something that was too hard.

And I needed to get harder.

To do even harder things.

And faster.

To get beyond where I was stuck, and get it done.

To get stronger.

And stronger.

To keep lifting a weight that was too heavy for me.

Perhaps 40,000 hours of research later I built this program for you, that I wish back then someone had built for me.

Here’s 15 mins on the 5 reasons I needed [this Masterclass on Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that might apply to you too:](https://geoffblades.com/harder/)