Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours
They take a very constrained example and claim that &quot;You should be a slacker too&quot;.<p>This is at best an irresponsible piece of writing that&#x27;s clearly targeting discussions like what&#x27;s happening here. This is the 1000th time I&#x27;ve seen a post on this topic on HN, and every time it&#x27;s posted here it&#x27;s like groundhog day, same comments. Well this is what publications like these want, they want more traffic.<p>There are many famous athletes who worked long hours. Ask Michael Jordan.<p>There are many famous entrepreneurs (actually I don&#x27;t know of a single extremely successful entrepreneur who didn&#x27;t work extremely hard) who worked long hours. Ask Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and really any successful entrepreneur who&#x27;s changed how the world works.<p>Just don&#x27;t ask some nobody writer who writes for a blog who just needs to get more page views. They don&#x27;t know what they are talking about.<p>In fact, you know what? MOST successful people work very hard. Surprising right? Duh.<p>It&#x27;s your freedom to choose how to live your life, but don&#x27;t tell others what to do based on your idiotic research clearly aimed at generating page views. That&#x27;s irresponsible.<p>Also, if you want to succeed, don&#x27;t listen to these idiots. Statistically those who work harder succeed more. Period.<p>That said, if your life goal is NOT about being successful but more about living a balanced life with happiness, then go live your life whatever way you want. In fact that&#x27;s how 99% of the world live their lives.<p>But again, if you want to have huge success and achieve more than you ever wanted in life, work hard. Don&#x27;t let these people ruin your life. You will really regret later.