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Waking up at 5 am is a flex, not a strategy
Nobody tells you this. The five am club is a personality, not a system. If you sleep five hours to get there, you are borrowing focus at twenty percent interest and paying it back by two in the afternoon. I track everything, and my best output weeks are the ones where I slept seven and a half hours, not the ones where I posted a sunrise photo. The sunrise photo does not compound. The deep work does. Optimize the hours you already have before you steal new ones from your sleep. A tired person with a notebook beats a smug person with an alarm clock every single time.5