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This is a terrible article, and I have to say that I'm not enjoying the reaction here either. Take out the alarmist language, the "SuperBoss" title and the fac
by edanm 11y ago
This is a terrible article, and I have to say that I'm not enjoying the reaction here either.
Take out the alarmist language, the "SuperBoss" title and the fact that this article talks about CEOs, and what this article is saying is that some people get up early and exercise. Is that so horrible and unhealthy? Exercising in the morning sounds like a good thing, even something most doctors would recommend!
But the article phrases everything to sound so ominous:
- CEOs don't get up early to exercise, they get up early to "exercise furiously". Every day that the gym I see dozens of people with me, are they all exercising "furiously"?
- They mention a CEO who, while exercising, "looks at e-mail, surfs the web, watches tv" [paraphrase, not direct quote]. No kidding, everyone does that! There's music playing in the gym, there are TVs in the gym, and who the hell doesn't glance at their phones to check emails once in a while? This literally describes the behavior of 90% of the people at the gym.
- The article keeps harping about the time CEOs get up, but they never even mention when they go to sleep. What if all these crazy CEOs that get up at 5am, also go to sleep at 10pm? Changes the picture somewhat, no? You'd expect a decent article to at least mention this.
Seriously, most of the behaviors in the article describe me and half the people I know who try to live a healthy lifestyle by exercising in the morning, and all these prescriptions at the end of the article of how business will fail if the CEOs are always exhausted are just flat out ridiculous. Getting up early to exercise gives me and most people an energy boost, and we're definitely healthier for it.
- woah 11y agoThis is a terrible comment. You've completely missed the point of the article, and chosen to dwell on one detail, turning it into a straw man.
- tangled_zans 11y agoThis is a terrible reply to the above comment! Your analysis was shallow, lacked any detailed references, and did not engage with the overall gestalt that OP tried to bring across!
- sarciszewski 11y agoCan we please not turn this into a meme? That would be both stupid and terrible.
- ccvannorman 11y agoYour fallacy fallacy is a horrible comment on the comment about the horrible comment on the somewhat OK article.
- edanm 11y agoDo you mind writing something a bit more substantial? I don't mind criticism, but I'd rather you explain how I did that. I'm not sure how to measure this, but I feel that I dealt with the substance of a large percentage of the article (as shown in its title), and that I did it very fairly with how the article was written. But if you think otherwise, please - tell me what I've missed!
- erikb 11y agoIf you get up at 5am you should go to bed at 9pm not 10pm and I really hope most people do it that way.
- sgt101 11y agoIf you are a CEO that would be amazing, at a big corporate you need to be at social functions at that time (investor dinners, charities...) several days a week. My CEO takes calls late into the evening when he's not doing that (I know as I have to go on them sometimes). Additionally they are travelling 100 days a year or so. It's madness, I wouldn't do it, nor would any of my peers I regard as either sane or competent (check the or).
- erikb 11y agoYeah, same problem here. Social functions and travelling make it nearly impossible. That's why I won't get up at 5am.
- klibertp 11y agoDepends a lot on a person. There are people who are perfectly regenerated after 5-6 hours of sleep. How the heck do they manage to sleep that efficiently?
- raverbashing 11y agoHaving to wake up @ 5am for some time made sleeping after 8pm a horrendous experience (at least for me) You will be present and awake but not really function.
- vox_mollis 11y agoStandardized on 12a-5a here. It is impossible for some of us to sleep longer than 5 or 6 hours, so laying in bed futilely trying to sleep more is a colossal waste of time.
- Hydraulix989 11y agoI need 9-10 hours of sleep a night to feel well-rested.
- okamiueru 11y agoI was perfectly fine with rationalizing how I'm not that far behind seemingly far more successful and healthier people, then you come along an want to ruin the illusion? Thanks, Obama.
- lagadu 11y ago> even something most doctors would recommend! Find me a doctor that will recommend you sleep fewer than 7 hours with a straight face. Because to get up at 4 they have to be getting to bed at 21.00 at the most and I very much doubt that, even for people without a social life. > They mention a CEO who, while exercising, "looks at e-mail, surfs the web, watches tv" [paraphrase, not direct quote]. No kidding, everyone does that! There's music playing in the gym, there are TVs in the gym, and who the hell doesn't glance at their phones to check emails once in a while? This literally describes the behavior of 90% of the people at the gym. If you're able to read, talk or otherwise focus on other tasks you're not exercising anywhere near hard enough to make it worthwhile.
- edanm 11y agoI weight-lift. In between sets, you usually have a minute of rest (at least). In that minute, I will sometimes read emails. This qualifies for the article. I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing they're talking about, but considering the rest of the article, I wouldn't put it past them. Also, not everyone in the article said they get up at 4am. 5:30am also worked. And I know plenty of people who get up at 6 - most people who work and have children tend to get up early. I'm just saying, this article put a negative spin on things that could easily be positive, or at least normal sounding. And it gave me no reason to think the positive spin isn't the correct one.
- lagadu 11y agoThe article said that in the context of spinning though, in which I'm sure you agree.