Pretending your success is all about hard work/grinding/hustling.

Actually, scratch the first point being the most galling, because it’s really this one. This myth is by far the most aggravating, the most degrading, and the most insulting. CEOs/founders/entrepreneurs/Sharks/whatever who insist on acting like it was their ~next-level hustle~ that got them all their success, and not a celestial cocktail of luck, timing, networks, and some hard work that got it, are the fucking worst. Period.

You know who works hard? Fucking everybody. Including the person who makes your lunch, cleans your streets, drives your Uber, and raises your children while you’re spending 20 hours a day at the office. Do you think those people are just missing your work ethic and determination? Do you think that, if only the person who does your dry cleaning was a little more dedicated to his job, he’d be the CEO of America’s third-largest laundry detergent company? Of course not. Everyone works hard, everyone tries, and most people are doing it on the fraction of the compensation or satisfaction of someone who started a business. If you are lucky enough to be successful at starting your own company, the least you can do is have the humility to acknowledge that you are not more special or more hard-working than anyone else, you just happened to have the privilege of being able to start something (and yes, being born in a country where that is even possible is one of them).

There is no need to act like the people who are not at the top of the professional food chain are only at the bottom because of a lack of grind. Everyone is grinding, you just happened to hit a lot of the right notes at a lot of the right times (and probably had a little bit of money to help along the way). The lack of humility and perspective in the startup world is probably the worst thing about it, because it’s not just misleading the people who might want to follow the same path: it’s acting like the people who haven’t only haven’t because they’re lazy.

No. Being an entrepreneur is easy, because you actually have a stake in the thing you’re building. Toiling daily for something that doesn’t care how hard you work is the real challenge. Try doing that for a year, startup bro, and let’s see how many condescending articles you write about how getting up at 5 AM and doing a green juice IV is the magic key to your success.

Read more here: http://thefinancialdiet.com/4-bullsht-entrepreneur-myths-im-sick-of-people-bragging-about/