Let's Debunk The 5 Worst Kinds Of Career Advice

Is the key to a good career an 80-hour workweek? Is it all about being tough and ruthless? Or is it about being a cynic and working only for the paycheck?

There is SO MUCH bad career advice out there. If you listen to it, it can hurt your health, your productivity and, ironically, even your career. I have worked in this field and followed the research for over 20 years, and if all of this advice was merely wrong I could probably let it slide but it turns out a lot of it is not only factually incorrect it is also incredibly damaging.?

When some rich person says that the only way to get ahead at work is to put in 80-hour work weeks, he’s not only spouting easily disproved nonsense, he is actively hurting people because research shows that permanent overwork can make people seriously ill or even kill them.

If you follow this bad career advice there is every chance that it will make things so much worse for you and ruin your health, your happiness and, ironically, even your career.

And this advice isn’t just hurting individuals. When some idiot rails against people working from home, they’re actively trying to stop something that could ease traffic congestion in cities, improve air quality and population health and reduce global warming.

But here’s the thing: There’s so much bad and harmful career advice that there’s just no way anyone can refute all of it. So in this video I go through the 5 worst kinds of people who are both very loud and also very wrong about work - 5 kinds of people that you need to be able to recognize and ignore whenever they spout off about work.

We’re going to go through each of the five and look at what they say, why they tend to grab our attention and most of all we’ll see exactly how they’re wrong - using science!