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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…

It is so funny to me when people on this website absolutely refuse to believe that some people really do like to rise early and get things done in the morning. I almost certainly get lots of stuff done before you get out of bed. You probably get more done than I do in the evening. I don't know why so many of you get bent out of shape about the former but not the latter.

We aren't criticising people who get up early. It's people who claim to do the Mark Wahlberg routine[0]

  2:30 a.m. wake up
  2:45 a.m. prayer time
  3:15 a.m. breakfast #1: steel oats, peanut butter, blueberries, and eggs
  3:40-5:15 a.m. workout #1
  5:30 a.m. breakfast #2: protein shake, three turkey burgers, five pieces of sweet potato
  6 a.m. shower
  7:30 a.m. golf
  8 a.m. snack: 10 turkey meatballs
  9:30 a.m. cryo chamber recovery
  10:30 a.m. breakfast #3: grilled chicken salad with two hard-boiled eggs, olives, avocado, cucumber, tomato, and lettuce
  11 a.m. family time/meetings/work calls
  1 p.m. lunch: New York steak with green peppers
  2 p.m. meetings/work calls
  3 p.m. pick up kids from school
  3:30 p.m. snack: grilled chicken with bok choy
  4 p.m. workout #2
  5 p.m. shower
  5:30 p.m. dinner/family time: fish (halibut or cod or sea bass) with veggies (such as sautéed spinach and bok choy)
  7:30 p.m. bedtime

According to this schedule, Wahlberg has eaten three breakfasts before I've eaten anything. Is he a hobbit? :D

[0]: https://manofmany.com/lifestyle/fitness/mark-wahlbergs-diet-...

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

#82
post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate? I have no idea why a psychologist would care.

Constant need for validation and attention, for one thing.

It's a marketing thing, like a lot of social media content. He's just trying to build a personal brand to promote his consulting business and clothing line. Nothing wrong with that.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

#83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is BS. I do this daily, and it has nothing to do with validation. I don't post it online but I do send a snap. Its a system that a friend and I have in place, it keeps up accountable to go get some sort of workout in every morning.

I can see someone doing this and posting it online to keep themselves accountable.

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…

Considering the timezone, her getting up at 4AM GMT+8 is ahead of the world, but still 3 hours before Australia.

Australia gets up before everyone, they should be dominating.

Re: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

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post #50
post #18

Pretty generic executive coach/mentor nonsense

I'm baffled at the response in these HN comments. There are currently thousands of life coaches and influences all over the internet who tell people to do these exact type of morning aspiration journals. There is nothing abnormal in these notes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Just because thousands of life coaches do it, doesn't mean it isn't a weird thing to do.

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