Totally.

There is a real mentality in many of the teams I've worked with that the "grind", "sacrifice", as the pound of flesh that must be offered up for success.

In reality it's far different. We need to make something of value and charge fairly for that value.

Teams can do this without the grind, and still be wildly successful. Teams can do the grind only and are typically not.

It's a false idol, and a lot of folks in the industry only have this to look up to so they don't know better.

It's because those of us doing the opposite, getting there with balance, aren't writing career focused articles around the holidays. Virtue signaling our work ethic. We're spending time with ourselves, our families, quietly succeeding.