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Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

Jocko Willink posts a picture of his watch during his workout every morning, usually in the 4:20 to 4:30 range.

A psychologist would have a field day with that.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

#52
post #4

I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

I know of a handful of people who practice(d) regimented schedules like this. I also know a few people for habitually draw up schedules and then fail to follow them.

Benjamin Franklin's schedule (from his autobiography) is a famous and probably factual example[1].

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/picture...

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really that hard to believe someone would do it somewhat regularly? I certainly don't do it every day, but more often then not I'll do the same kind of things in the morning (wake up around 4 - 4:30am, meditate, exercise, shower / clean, ...). It's just basic habits The part after the schedule is weird for sure, but the schedule itself sounds fine.

Maybe it sounds fine to you, but to me, a night owl, it sounds absolutely insane. I would go insane if I had to do this and I don't know if I would ever recover.

It *is* insane to wake up at 4am if you go to bed anytime after 10PM.

I know some people will swear before god that they can function on little sleep, but the fact is that your decision making and judgement is seriously hampered by maintaining a long term sleep deficit.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

#54
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Legitimate question: why do people find this interesting and/or why is it relevant to the trial?

Because her defense is "her boyfriend made her do it" and this is allegedly a schedule he made for her.

I can definitely see her as that specific type of insecure person who chooses someone like that because they feel they deserve the punishment. It reminds me a little of Nastasya Filippovna, from the Idiot:

> No, no; we'd better say good-bye and part friends. I am a bit of a dreamer myself, and I used to dream of you once. Very often during those five years down at his estate I used to dream and think, and I always imagined just such a good, honest, foolish fellow as you, one who should come and say to me: 'You are an innocent woman, Nastasia Philipovna, and I adore you.' I dreamt of you often. I used to think so much down there that I nearly went mad; and then this fellow here would come down. He would stay a couple of months out of the twelve, and disgrace and insult and deprave me, and then go; so that I longed to drown myself in the pond a thousand times over; but I did not dare do it.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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The single most important task for a CEO at a large company is to publicize their daily schedule, describing how they rise at either 5am or 6am (Holmes goes a step further), and then work out and take care of a large amount of business before the rest of the common people even wake up. Bonus points for preparing and having breakfast with your small children after your workout and morning email/decision-making routine. Additional bonus points for family time every evening, as well as prolific reading across a multitude of subjects.

It is imperative that people understand the CEO's total superiority over the common person. They do not sleep like everyone else. They don't waste or lose time like everyone else. They do not neglect their family. Their body is toned and strong. Their mind is focused and cultured, with an insatiable appetite for information.

Behold, I bring you: the CEO!

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really that hard to believe someone would do it somewhat regularly? I certainly don't do it every day, but more often then not I'll do the same kind of things in the morning (wake up around 4 - 4:30am, meditate, exercise, shower / clean, ...). It's just basic habits The part after the schedule is weird for sure, but the schedule itself sounds fine.

Maybe it sounds fine to you, but to me, a night owl, it sounds absolutely insane. I would go insane if I had to do this and I don't know if I would ever recover.

Meh, it's a night owl schedule from a different time zone.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

She seems to be sociopathic, it wouldn't be very surprising if she practiced variations of a schedule like this with the intent of molding herself into an image/fantasy of success, as she was appraently trying to do with quasi copying Jobs. It is certainly unlikely she was able to rigidly maintain a daily schedule like that.

Executives, whether they're sociopaths or not, don't have to hold that schedule all on their own. They have executive assistants and personal assistants (not always different people) to help them with that. I dunno, if I had someone who's job it was to help keep me on that schedule, I think I'd have better luck than the plebes do, don't you?

You also might want to write it down for them, so there'd be no confusion between you.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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post #4

I doubt this was her practiced schedule. More of like an sketch for her envisioned perfect day. Do you really believe people practice such schedules?

Jocko Willink posts a picture of his watch during his workout every morning, usually in the 4:20 to 4:30 range.

He was also in the military for 21 years, so waking up early is probably a long-ingrained habit by now.
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