Working consistently within one's capacity while maintaining health leads to greater long-term achievement than unsustainable high-intensity work.

“The key is to figure out how much can you work each day consistently? If that's four hours a day, fine. If that's eight hours a day, fine. We're talking with weekend breaks because that was in the era of weekend breaks. Maybe a weekend every once in a while where you have a deadline. But by thinking about what you personally can really do consistently while maintaining sleep, and mental health, and physical health, you're going to go a lot further than doing like, for instance, what I did, which was maniac and working 100 hour weeks as a graduate student and then ending up sick four times a year and missing out on a bunch of days when I could have been in lab.”