The morning rituals of turbo-strivers are entertainment, not inspiration
Is this a winners’ morning routine: breakfast and the newspapers in bed, before starting work, also in bed? It certainly did the trick for Winston Churchill.
Yet among entrepreneurs and modern leaders, Churchill would be considered a slacker. In recent years, turbo-strivers have battled to pack in cross-training, meditation and bullet journaling in the hours the wartime prime minister spent snoozing.
One example went viral on Twitter this week after it was shared by the satirical account, The State of LinkedIn. It was from Christian Knudsen, a self styled “sales guru”, whose LinkedIn post (from three years ago) was tantamount to a dystopian poem: “4:30am. I wake up. Instantly. From the fogginess of dreams, to the readiness of full consciousness. As I have done for over fifteen years. A quick kiss to my wife’s sleep head, I proceed into my morning routine. Glancing into my children’s rooms, somewhat envious of the sleep of youth, I proceed downstairs to the kitchen, the smell of freshly brewed coffee filling my senses . . . Coffee in hand I head to my office. The glow of twenty-four screens erupt to life as I enter.”
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Emma Jacobs
