We hear a lot about "the grind" or "the hustle", but it dawned on me that what we mean by those terms would have been nothing new to our forefathers. We talk about 12 and 14 hour days like we're something special. We're not. We talk about working from sunup to sundown and then some, as if we're a new breed of human. We're not. All that has happened is the old way has been resurrected and given a new name. We call it "the grind" and "the hustle." Our great-great-grandfathers would of simply called it "work."