Hustle and superstition

If you hustle to make the tight deadline, you’ll work harder, longer.

And then it’ll become normal. You’ll still be at your desk at that hour after the deadline passed. You’ll keep feeling tired the next morning.

It’s like a form of superstition; a habit that exist long after the danger it protected us from passed.

Sticking breaking in the woods meant lions, then it meant “bad luck”, something we avoided for no reason.

Hustling in our work meant not missing the deadline, then it meant “just what I do”, something we do for no reason.

Watch out for superstitions in your work.

They stack up, shackles promising progress.