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At the start of one's career, the main asset is often sheer work ethic. Without much experience to lean on, individuals become heavily reliant on their capacity for hard work. Responding to every email, taking all calls, and managing every task personally becomes the norm. This tends to establish a cycle where the individual believes that busyness equates to success. The problem is that this operator mentality defines a finite stage of one's professional journey—a stage that eventually needs to be shed.