"Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep. I'm here to tell you that if you want success you got to be willing to give up sleep. You've got to be willing to work off of 3 hours of sleep, 2 hours of sleep. If you really want to be successful, sometimes you're going to have to stay up 3 days in a row. Because if you go to sleep you might miss the opportunity to be successful." - Eric Thomas
I've seen the video where Eric says that and for a time I thought it was good advice cuz after all... He's ma boiiii, Eric Thomas.
But now I think that is actually terrible advice. Sure you need to want success enough to go sleepless BUT you shouldn't deprive yourself of sleep because Entrepreneurship requires A LOT of mental endurance (ie will power) to put up with bullshit. Sleep and tranquility is the only thing that restores will power.
Your brain is after all, a muscle. A muscle that exerts will power. And just like working out your other muscles you need a period of stress (to break down the muscle) and a period of rest (to repair the muscle and make it stronger). In body building your goal is to reach muscle failure and then rest. If you work your muscles past failure you are not getting stronger you are simply wasting time and punishing yourself for nothing. Working out your brain is exactly the same I think.
When I feel stressed as shit to the point I want to slap all my customers in the face and shout absurdities at them , I usually take that as a sign that I have exerted my brain to its max. It's a sign that I did something I was uncomfortable with and after I sleep and meditate on what the F*ck just happened, my will power grows stronger. I am able to deal with the bullshit, and subsequent bullshit, better.
And just to prove it, go ahead and insult me! Watch how calm, cool, and collected I stay as I take your shit straight to ma face! My will power can bench press like 300lb baby!
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