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People underrate standing. I can literally feel my brain being more productive.
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I'm not necessarily disagreeing but what makes you say working extremely early hours is probably healthier than working extremely late hours?
I wake up at 4 most mornings. I'm always at the peak of my energy at the 3.5 hours I have before I walk entirely uphill to work. After my descent I'm usually too worn out to get anything productive done, and since I start wrapping up my evening around 7-8, I don't sacrifice sleep. My Chinese teacher put it best: "Early to rise, early to bed, leaves you healthy, wealthy, and socially dead."
Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
I'm curious if you would count your day job as an "accomplishment".
Call a friend once a day at roughly the same time. Catch up on what you two have been up to, talk about what you've accomplished in the last 24 hours, and discuss what you'd like to get done before the next call. No app or self-help book could ever replace the shame from letting down someone you respect.
calling isn't cool anymore , we want to be cool.
2. Do those things.
3. That's it.
Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
Adding "127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com" to the hosts file.
Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
This sounds very attractive. Can you share the context - what kind of work do you do, how do you get paid?
I do software development and IT consulting and am gradually moving away from freelancing (where I do most of the work myself) towards just orchestrating things and streaming work through my company to other freelancers.
If you need even more context - I also have a family with 3 young children and the income that I generate is about 100% of our total family income.
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Wait what? Which steps are impossible for 90% of the population?
Not a lot of people can spend 1/3 of a year on vacation. I'm in Sweden and I consider my vacation time pretty generous (6 weeks per year), but still, I'm still nowhere near 1/3 of a year.