The hustle loop | Seth’s Weblog

After we fall behind, it’s tempting to hustle to catch up.

When the competitors heats up, it’s crucial we hustle to get forward.

Hustle is a specific type of shortcut. Hustle is pushing the boundaries of cultural expectation, creating stress and discomfort to make a sale. Hustle pushes us to chop corners, lower the road and lower down belief.

And it rapidly turns into the brand new regular. Hustling is a race to the underside, and our opponents lean and hustle in response… which signifies that we’re now below stress to hustle greater than we predict is suitable, pushed by the identical forces that led us to hustle within the first place.

The choice is to lean into higher. To search out the house and the heart to do breakthrough work, work that others are afraid to do. As a substitute of inflicting discomfort and chopping, we’re constructing one thing value following and speaking about.

After all it’s not straightforward, that’s why it really works.

PS A breath of contemporary air, Dr. Natalie Nixon’s new guide is out.

September 3, 2025