Look at the urgency from BRIGHTON at 2-0 down away at Old Trafford in comparison to us being 3-2 down at home. The levels are so far apart, even just from an application standpoint - we can’t do the basics WITHOUT the ball, never mind with it.
It’s what Manchester United have become, though. We’re getting popped off the park, we can’t get our foot on the ball, we have players genuinely walking, this is mediocrity. This is what we’ve become. Accept it. We can’t be shocked at this anymore.
Nobody on their deathbed says, “I should have spent more time in the office.”
At some point, you have to ask yourself:
What am I optimizing for?
Having spent 19 years in an office and 12 working from home, here’s the truth:
He’s probably right that if you’re solely optimizing for work productivity, commuting to an office every day is better.
By how much is highly debatable because a lot of wasted time and inefficiency happens in offices. It probably varies widely by person, but as a creative type, I find offices soul-crushing. I’m far less productive there.
If you’re like me and you aspire for more than just a great career, then working from home is the #2 unlock. (#1 is a stay-at-home spouse. If you have both, it’s a 10X multiplier.)
The life I want to live simply isn’t possible if I’m sitting in an office (or in traffic) most of the day. I’ll take a small productivity hit (and less money!) in exchange for:
1) Unhurried mornings.
2) Zero time sitting in traffic.
3) Little 5-minute interactions with the family throughout the day. (I call them “in-between moments” and they compound massively.)
4) Wearing shorts and a t-shirt.
5) Exercise and outdoor time when there’s a break in the action. (For me, it’s *part of* the work.)
6) Being able to eat healthy.
Final thought:
Be careful who you emulate… because you just might pull it off.
Before you take someone’s advice, make sure you inspect their *whole* life, not just their career. Ask yourself, “Is this what I want?”
P.S. There are seasons to life and there’s a season to put your head down and grind to get ahead. But seasons have an end—do it as a means to get to that end.
It’s been fun noticing recently with the upheavals in the managerial situations at some of the big European clubs.
And that brings us steaming back to the topic of last week’s thread because #DidYouNotice how Michael Carrick’s ‘risky’ approach earned him a win over Mikel Arteta?