I was just as productive if I was well rested, healthy, well fed with healthy foods and working on something I cared about.
Those are four conditions that are difficult to fulfill 24/7. I'd go so far as to say that it's difficult to have a normal social life and always be well-rested and fueled with healthy foods. Case in point: I have a dance class on Wednesday nights that breaks up after ten o'clock. No way I'm sleeping until 1am or 2am on those nights. But I exercise in the mornings, so I can't stay up until 1am or 2am every night. My life is an engineering exercise, and like any engineering exercise, there are a lot of compromises. I'm curious about using Modafinil judiciously to make up the gap once in a while, possibly at the once-per-few-months frequency he says would be okay. It's incredible what our body will do -- virtually anybody can run a marathon, for example -- but it takes a lot of orchestration to convince our body to release its miserly grip on our resources and do the job we'd like it to do.
Those are four conditions that are difficult to fulfill 24/7. I'd go so far as to say that it's difficult to have a normal social life and always be well-rested and fueled with healthy foods. Case in point: I have a dance class on Wednesday nights that breaks up after ten o'clock. No way I'm sleeping until 1am or 2am on those nights. But I exercise in the mornings, so I can't stay up until 1am or 2am every night. My life is an engineering exercise, and like any engineering exercise, there are a lot of compromises. I'm curious about using Modafinil judiciously to make up the gap once in a while, possibly at the once-per-few-months frequency he says would be okay. It's incredible what our body will do -- virtually anybody can run a marathon, for example -- but it takes a lot of orchestration to convince our body to release its miserly grip on our resources and do the job we'd like it to do.