Hustle is not a virtue. Hustle in the context of a virtuous activity is good. Hustle outside of that context is just…window dressing at best, and detrimental at worst.
The reason this is important is that too often hustling is just a form of hiding. We can rush and bustle around with all sorts of activity–keeping up with investment news, trading on investment news, conversing with peers and colleagues about the latest wins and losses, “multi-tasking”, saying yes to all the meetings and responding to all the emails–but if we aren’t careful, not only are those things of limited value, but they are distracting us from hustling in the virtues of immense value.
So it’s not good enough to simply hustle. We have to decide what’s worth the hustle, and be open to the fact that hustling toward what’s good can sometimes involve very anti-hustle language: quiet, calm, focused, content, enough.
Meaningful Returns 