Why Billionaire Productivity Hacks Won’t Work for You

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Read any blog, scroll through Twitter for a few minutes, listen to almost any podcast, and you’ll find someone confidently telling you how to structure your day. A CEO shares their morning routine. A tech billionaire gives you a list of life hacks. A lifestyle influencer promises that if you copy their ritual of cold showers, bullet journaling, and mushroom coffee, you too will reach the heights of efficiency.

Every list is presented as if it’s a transferable, universal blueprint for success.

What they actually reveal is the gulf between the circumstances of the advice-giver and the listener.

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I constantly reiterate a similar take: advice needs to be tailored to your situation. People will take any tidbit and assume it applies to them right now. Seldom is that true.

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I think we all want to believe that if we could just find the silver bullet…

But it’s not true.

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Somewhere Wendell Berry writes about a friend, a world-class horse trainer, who received a letter which asked in essence: How do you train a horse? His friend’s reply: Which horse?