Scott Frost shares his insights from our newsletter:
I think we’ve gotten the wrong idea about “work-life balance.”
The way people talk about it, you’d think it was a perfectly level seesaw. Work on one side. Life on the other. Never tipping too far in either direction.
Which, now that I think about it, would make for a pretty lousy seesaw.
Real life moves.
Sometimes work gets more of you. Sometimes life does.
And when I’m in trial, work gets a lot.
Trials can mean weeks away from my family. Late nights. Sometimes staying up all night.
I can spend years preparing a case, do some of the best work of my career, and still walk away with nothing if the jury decides against me.
But when I’m in it, I’m in it.
When someone wants to join our trial team, I don’t sugarcoat that part.
When we offered Patrick a job a while back, I told him not to answer right away.
“Go home. Talk to your wife.”
I didn’t want the interview answer. I wanted him to think about what this job would actually ask of him—and his family.
This is a national practice. You’ll travel. You’ll need to be available. You may have to take another bar exam.
I wasn’t worried about whether Patrick had enough trial experience.
That, I can teach.
What I can’t teach is the willingness to put in the time when the work demands it.
So Patrick went home. He talked to his wife. Then he came back with a real answer—he was in.
To me, that is work-life balance.
Sometimes the seesaw tips pretty far toward work. But when you’re off, you’re off.
And when it’s time to go all in again?
You show up and stay up.
It’s not for everybody.
But maybe that’s the point of balance. It’s not about keeping everything perfectly level.
It’s knowing what’s worth tipping the seesaw for.
— Scott Frost
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