I absolutely love this quote and I am sure it will resonate with many on here so I thought I would share this with you : Will.i.am, the Grammy Award–winning artist turned tech entrepreneur revealed that he maxes out the 5-to-9 after the daily grind of his 9-to-5, and he advises to forget about work-life balance if you want to emulate his success. “If you’re trying to build something that doesn’t exist, it’s about dream-reality balance,” he says. “Work-life balance means that you’re working for somebody else’s dream. You just have a job supporting somebody else’s dream, and you want to balance your work and your life. But if it’s dream-reality balance, then it’s not work. It’s a dream that you’re trying to put into reality, and you’re ignoring your current reality.” For example, after working on his tech venture from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Will.i.am says that he goes back to work on his creative business until 9 p.m. “From that perspective, work-life balance is not for the architects that are pulling visions into reality. Those words don’t compute to the mindset of the materialisers.”

Posted by Fran Dobson at 2026-01-26 17:35:24 UTC