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Snippet 5 - How To Avoid Burnout As An Entrepreneur: James Hoffmann

2022/8/2
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James Hoffmann:在创业初期,我曾每周工作110小时,最终导致身心俱疲,甚至对咖啡(我的事业)产生厌恶。这种‘英雄式’的过度劳累是创业文化中的毒瘤,我对此深恶痛绝。健康的创业方式应该是:拥有足够的启动资金,以便雇佣员工,合理分配工作,并保持工作与生活的平衡。我不后悔取得的成就,但我后悔当初没有足够的资金,导致过度劳累,这是一种错误的方式。我建议创业者在初期就应该筹集足够的资金,雇佣更多员工,并保证有规律的工作时间,避免过度劳累。 我经历过YouTube发展初期的高速增长阶段,那时我感觉像是在往火焰上浇汽油,投入越多,回报越大。但这种方式不可持续,最终会让你迷失方向。我不确定这种高速增长是否必要,或者是否更好。重要的是找到一个平衡点,在追求效率和可持续发展之间取得平衡。 在2008年金融危机前后,融资环境发生了巨大变化。获得小额贷款(例如1万英镑)比获得大额贷款(例如100万英镑)困难得多。这使得许多小型企业难以获得足够的资金,并被迫过度劳累。 我并不为当初过度劳累的方式感到骄傲,也不希望其他人重蹈覆辙。我认为,这种‘奋斗文化’是一种病态的文化,它会损害人们的身心健康。我希望其他人能够避免我曾经犯过的错误,以更健康、更可持续的方式发展自己的事业。 如果让我回到13年前,我会花更多的时间去筹集启动资金,而不是盲目地加班。当时的创业文化鼓励过度劳累,但我并不认同这种观点。我希望大家不要盲目追求‘奋斗’,而要注重工作与生活的平衡,以更健康的方式发展事业。

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James Hoffmann discusses the toxic culture of hustling in entrepreneurship, sharing his personal experience of working excessively and reaching a point of deep misery.

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In these Deep Dive Snippets, I'll be sharing some of my favourite moments from past episodes of the podcast.

51% of UK business owners have experienced burnout since the start of the COVID19 pandemic, but do you really need to hustle to the point of burnout out when starting a business to be successful? In this snippet, I talk to James Hoffman about the dangers of hustling and what he would've done differently in the early days of building his business Stone Mile Coffee Roasters.

Listen to the full episode here 👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Fru7GPgAflAe7eIuOHgZh?si=sGxOPsh7TZ2Br5qoBNEe5g)

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