I&#x27;ve been convinced for quite some time that the 60-80 hour work week thing is mostly fictitious bragging and a culture of workaholic bravado. I think people actually lie about how much they work to appear more important or more &#x27;serious&#x27;.<p>In any case if you are doing knowledge or creative work and are working more than 40-50 hours a week (for longer than a short crunch time), you are burning a lot of hours but are probably not working efficiently.