How to smile when eating glas and staring into the abyss?

"Just work like Hell"

Just have to put in you know 80 hour 80 to 100 hour weeks every week and then work that all those things improve the odds of success um I mean if if if other people are putting in 40-hour work weeks and you're putting in 100h hour work weeks then even if uh you're doing the same thing you know that in in one year you will achieve what they achieve you will

achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.

Trying to build a company and have it succeed is like eating glass and staring into the abyss I mean what tends to happen is it's sort of quite exciting for the first several months of starting a company and then then reality sets in things don't go as well as planned customers aren't signing up the technology of the product isn't

working as well as you thought um and um and then can that can sometimes be compounded by a recession um and uh it can be very very painful for several years um so I think um frankly starting a company I would advise people to have a high pain tolerance.

f maintaining a cheerful disposition while engaging in activities that are both metaphorically and literally painful. Here's how you can keep smiling:

That quote up there comes from the channel Outcast Motivation from 2 years ago portraying Elon Musk. The video got 2 Million Views in 2 years and they have around 145.000 Followers. That video inspired me to ask Grok the following question:

"How to smile when eating glas and staring into the abyss?"

I can identify with that quite a bit. I don't want to scare away the ordinary folk from the Ideas Have People Network, but I personally think 60-80 hours work are just enough to get bye and more is always welcome. I personally am unhappy when my current work focus, does not appear in my dreams that means I am not committed enough.