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Alona asks, how many hours of sleep do you normally manage to get to your schedule?

Well first Heaven is 9 and a half hours on a day, maybe there's a little bit of rain for some reason, even though you live in the city, it's quiet, an occasional car slowly driving by.

Heaven is getting those 9 and a half, no, heaven is the first cup of coffee after the 9 and a half hours of sleep.

Optimal performance wise, I like to get 7 or 8 hours of sleep.

I don't often get that amount of sleep though and I think the rest is just all mental.

I still often pull nights where it's 123 hours of sleep.

I frequently pull all-nighters, maybe an average of about 10 to 15 all-nighters a year.

All have to do with deadlines and just focus.

A few occasional rare, beautiful all-nighters are sort of, you're so, I'm so passionate about a particular idea that I just can't wait to see it work.

And I stay up all night, through noon in the afternoon and then maybe go to bed early next night.

You know what, I don't believe in burnout.

I think there's just a voice of laziness that can be defeated with a sword of focus, perseverance, determination, and passion.

I could wash toilets, I could do manual labor, anything, I just love it.

The sadness, the fear, all of that, that's a beautiful part of

So to me, burnout doesn't even make sense.

Even the concept of burnout is something that I love.

So if you feel like you're burning out, that's beautiful too.

When you're passionate about everything, what the hell does anything...

Burnout kind of says like, I think because I've known close people to me that have suffered from depression, I think depression is sort of, actually like clinical depression, is kind of the experience that I see as beyond the kind of thing that I'm talking about, which is it's really, you're in a place where nothing has meaning.

But to me, I have never experienced a moment where something is not rich of meaning.

And I think David Foster Wallace said, the key to life is to be unboreable, meaning it's impossible to make you bored of anything you do, and I'm unboreable of anything I do.

My face, when I express it, I got a Russian sort of Sad, suffering face most of the time, but I'm actually happy on the inside.

Ugly on the outside, sweet and glorious on the inside.

Again, that's 1 question I'm not even answering correctly, okay.


Speaker 0: Alona asks, how many hours of sleep do you normally manage to get to your schedule? How do you avoid burning out? Well first Heaven is 9 and a half hours on a day, maybe there's a little bit of rain for some reason, even though you live in the city, it's quiet, an occasional car slowly driving by. Heaven is getting those 9 and a half, no, heaven is the first cup of coffee after the 9 and a half hours of sleep. Yeah.

Optimal performance wise, I like to get 7 or 8 hours of sleep. I don't often get that amount of sleep though and I think the rest is just all mental. I still often pull nights where it's 123 hours of sleep. I frequently pull all-nighters, maybe an average of about 10 to 15 all-nighters a year. All have to do with deadlines and just focus.

A few occasional rare, beautiful all-nighters are sort of, you're so, I'm so passionate about a particular idea that I just can't wait to see it work. And I stay up all night, through noon in the afternoon and then maybe go to bed early next night. You know, go to bed at like 9 p.m. Or something like that. Burnout too.

Speaker 1: You know what, I don't believe in burnout. It's not like a,

Speaker 0: I think there's just a voice of laziness that can be defeated with a sword of focus, perseverance, determination, and passion.

Speaker 1: I think I love everything I do. I could wash toilets, I could do manual labor, anything, I just love it. I love every moment of every day. The sadness, the fear, all of that, that's a beautiful part of

Speaker 0: the journey. I love it. So to me, burnout doesn't even make sense. Like, what are you burning out from? Even the concept of burnout is something that I love.

So if you feel like you're burning out, that's beautiful too. That's part of the human experience. I love that whole thing. When you're passionate about everything, what the hell does anything... Burnout kind of says like, I think because I've known close people to me that have suffered from depression, I think depression is sort of, actually like clinical depression, is kind of the experience that I see as beyond the kind of thing that I'm talking about, which is it's really, you're in a place where nothing has meaning.

But to me, I have never experienced a moment where something is not rich of meaning. And I think David Foster Wallace said, the key to life is to be unboreable, meaning it's impossible to make you bored of anything you do, and I'm unboreable of anything I do. I love it. My face, when I express it, I got a Russian sort of Sad, suffering face most of the time, but I'm actually happy on the inside. I'm like a like a kiwi.

Ugly on the outside, sweet and glorious on the inside. Again, that's 1 question I'm not even answering correctly, okay. You you

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