So I'm gonna try the rocks daily schedule for All right.

So that's not gonna happen anyway.

The rock schedule for a week.

Let's go four o'clock in the morning.

I wake up for 34.

45.

I'm doing some sort of cardio open the garage doors still dark outside.

I do this and then I'll have breakfast in bed and I will go get my strength training gym about an hour on.

Then I'll go to set way.

Don't know that the rock is an inspirational person.

His work ethic, Miss workouts, is feeding habits.

And for me, personally, I'm just really impressed with anyone who's really productive.

And the rock definitely comes off very productive.

A lot of people associate getting up early with being more productive, because if you get up at 4 a.m. then you should have a head start on everyone else.

You should also be able to get more work done because you basically get up three hours before most normal people.

D'oh!

And also at that time, no one else is around to disturb you, which means that you again should be able to get more work done.

This is not what happened for me.

Let's take a look at the rocks schedule.

He wakes up at 4 a.m. The first thing he will do is go do some cardio for about 30 minutes.

After this, he eats his breakfast.

Then, around 6 a.m. he will head to the gym for a second workout, which will focus on strength training.

After this, he will shower and eat his post workout, his days obviously very a ton, depending on what project he's working on.

So I kind of had to deduce what the rest of his day might look like based on the little information that I had, which was how many meals?

Seats per day, which is about 6 to 7.

And to be honest, there's a lot of eating in this day.

But at around 9 a.m. he'd be finished with his 1st 2 workouts and his first meals, and that would be when his work day begins.

You'd probably have to a film set to shoot some Hollywood blockbuster movie.

I'm not quite there yet, so from now I set up the schedule to be what I would imagine that a day at the office would look like for the road.

Nine until 11 a.m. Work 11 till 11:30 a.m. Eat the third meal 11 30 till 1 p.m. Work 1 to 2 p.m. Eat the fourth meal 2 to 5 PM Work 5 to 5:30 p.m. Eat the fifth meal 5 30 until 7:30 p.m. Free time.

7 30 until 8 p.m. Eat the sixth meal and then 8 p.m. So that is the schedule that I followed.

And the thing is that I kind of life to get up early, so it didn't seem too crazy to me to get up at 4 a.m. However, when you get up at 4 a.m. that also means they have to go to bed at about 8 p.m. or nine pm if you want to get your 7 to 8 hours of sleep.

And that means that even though you get three hours more than most people in the morning, you also get three hours less than most people in the evening.

If you want to get your 78 hours of sleep, which you should here we have the classic line from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

When he was asked about sleeping only five hours per night and how he could do it, he replied, which is sleep faster, which is a killer line, But it's also really bad advice.

Some people don't need as much sleep as others, but the majority of the world needs 7 to 8 hours per night.

If you do not want to significantly decrease your life span.

Science is very clear on this.

All right, so now I'm done with my cardio, and it is right now for 31 A.

M.

S.

You can see.

And I'm feeling pretty good, to be honest, a lot better than I thought and a lot better than I look.

I promise.

And now I'm just gonna go upstairs and have some breakfast.

But I'm also kind of wondering what my neighbors think of me.

They must think I'm insane because as they come down in the morning to get their bikes to Goto work, they find this crazy guy rowing in a storage unit, as you do for a while now, I've been very bad with eating.

As in, I tend not to.

So one of the most beneficial parts of following the rocks daily routine was actually the eating.

And to be honest, when you get up that early and due to workouts first thing in the morning, you need to feed yourself in order to function.

And I noticed overall feeling better because I was more full throughout the day.

However, I get super sluggish after eating, so getting myself to the gym straight after breakfast is never easy.

I've been working out now for about 10 years, and lately I've been doing it around 8 a.m. So this wasn't too different from that, since I'm not a Hollywood movie star.

Yet I decided that when he would be on set filming some movie, I would instead be working on my own projects.

And I kind of took this week as an opportunity to try to maximize my output and get as much done as I possibly could, and so essentially made a list of all the things that I wanted to get done this week and that ice loaded that into the available times in my Google calendar.

And let's just say it didn't go according to plan.

So here's a look at what my planned week looked like.

And here's a look at what my actual week ended up looking like I've been a productivity nerd for a while now.

And one of the main things that I've learned that really shows in this week is this.

If you're tired, sleep and if you're excited, work as you can see the 1st 2 days, I got a bit of stuff done in the morning after all the workouts.

But later on during the week, you can see the progressively increased fatigue show its ugly face.

Working out in the morning was not super difficult because it's kind of mindless work.

But getting to work after having gotten little sleep and also doing to workouts was really hard.

With my normal schedule, I tend to wake up in the morning and they work for a couple hours and then go work out.

And the reason for this is that I know that once I've gone to the gym, I have to go home.

I have to shower and I have to eat, and that usually takes me a while to d'oh!

And once I'm done eating, it's very hard to get back the momentum and get back into working.

And that is what I struggled with a lot.

Towards the end of the week after I'd had my second meal around 9 a.m. I was dead tired, so I would often end up procrastinating until about 10 or 11 a.m. and then I had to eat again.

So this really goes to show the importance of my principle when it comes to setting up your own schedule, which is the if you're tired, sleep.

And if you're excited work.

I have found that the way to increase productivity the most is by listening to your body.

Sometimes you need to sleep in, and sometimes you should just work on the thing that excites you and not what you had planned.

The main thing for me after following the rock schedule for a week is that I felt like I used up a lot of my energy in the early mornings, and then I was left trying to recover from that major energy expenditure throughout the rest of the day, and I never really did, which meant that I felt a lot less productive overall.

And keep in mind that during this week I was eating way more than I would normally eat.

And if I hadn't done that, I don't even know if I would have been able to function getting up at four o'clock in the morning every day before anybody else.

It's a great feeling to get in the gym in the morning, set a goal and leave the gym knowing you accomplished it.

At the end of the day, it's never too early or too late to get after your goals.

Once you start that first step, you take that action.

That's gonna be what creates the momentum, and once you get some momentum going, then you're off to the races.

But I think that the takeaway here is not to get caught up in the trend of waking up super early to be crazy, productive.

There are definitely benefits to doing that, but I think that more often than not, we attempt these things and think it will be a magic pill.

If you want to be successful, you need to get up at 4 a.m. And due to workouts before anyone else wakes up.

And even though that is crazy, motivational and inspirational, that doesn't mean that it's the best way to do things.

In order to do your best work, you need to have mental clarity, sleep and food or the biggest determining factors here.

If you get up in our later, you may have more mental clarity, which means that you can get the job done in one hour instead of two.

But that's just the thought.

All right, that's it for this one.

I hope you enjoyed it.

And I hope you got some tips regarding how to set up your own weak and scheduled to be more productive.

And before you go, I just want to mention clean code Friday, which is a short email that I sent out once every week.

So every Friday.

That contains a few of the most interesting things that are found throughout the week.

So this would be things like podcasts of Listen, Thio book, some reading, productivity tips, articles of red coding, tips and tricks and really just anything that I think you might enjoy.

So if you want to sign up to that, you can go to caltech dot com slash clean code.

There will also be a link in the description.

All right, that's it for this one.