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Can you elaborate on what you believe to be the reasons you're able to work productively for 12 hours a day? I'd love to have that superpower.
by apatters 9y ago
Can you elaborate on what you believe to be the reasons you're able to work productively for 12 hours a day? I'd love to have that superpower.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoCouldn't tell you for certain. Probably some combination of genetics and intense training, with previous periods of long sustained critical work. Often I find I compare whatever my current situation I'm in, with previous tough situations I've dealt with, and know that if I made it through those, then my current situation is tractable. On multiple occasions in a previous life I've worked multiple 24-36 straight hours doing intense cognitive and physically intensive work for multiple crises in Korea, Iraq and other wartime places. So that's a good benchmark to compare to.
- jack_pp 9y agoI suspect having peoples lives in your hands is a different kind of pressure than pleasing your manager
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoRight, everything else is trivial in comparison. As a result, working an extra few hours on some Python is just a great thing to be able to get paid for.
- bousaid 9y agoThe secret according to my business professor who was an electrical engineer, a sniper in the military, and started a multimillion dollar PE firm, and sleeps <6 hours every night: eat more.