That seems too extreme to me. You should optimize for what you can do under ordinary circumstances, not under the worst strain. Eg, nothing wrong optimizing for something that breaks if you don’t get 8hrs of sleep, if you manage to get 8hrs of sleep 98⁄100 days.
For personal relationships, mitigating my worst days has been more important than improving the average.
For work, all that’s really mattered is my really good days, and it’s been more productive to try and invest time in having more great days or using them well than to bother with even the average days.
That seems too extreme to me. You should optimize for what you can do under ordinary circumstances, not under the worst strain. Eg, nothing wrong optimizing for something that breaks if you don’t get 8hrs of sleep, if you manage to get 8hrs of sleep 98⁄100 days.
For personal relationships, mitigating my worst days has been more important than improving the average.
For work, all that’s really mattered is my really good days, and it’s been more productive to try and invest time in having more great days or using them well than to bother with even the average days.
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