Ascend 101

Lessons about building a one-person business, writing, and self-improvement

Building a 3-hour-a-day business requires you to be productive.

And there’s no shortage of people on the internet who think they’re productivity experts just because they wake up 2 hours earlier and take cold showers. Yet these people also share all their rules and guidelines as pure fact.

Which results in an overload of awful and terrible advice for anyone wanting to actually be more productive and build a better daily routine for themselves.

Think about morning routines for example.

People will tell you to wake up, take a cold shower, skip breakfast, walk a marathon, take another cold shower, go to the gym, take another cold shower, meditate, do your gratification journalling, walk your dog, hop in the sauna afterwards, and finish it off with yet another cold shower session. And only then should you start your work day.

Don’t get me wrong. You can live your life however you want. But actually think about whether the advice other people give is beneficial to you.

One such things that I don’t see get spoken about often enough is the effect of personality on your ideal routine.

Here’s the thing.

Most people will tell you to do your work in the morning so you’re done by noon. Yet most of those people are introverts.

Why does that matter?

Well here’s the thing.

Imagine you have to split up your day into 2 different phases: the social phase, and the alone phase.

If you’re an introvert—meaning social interactions drain your energy—then you’d want to make as much use of the morning as you can before you drain your energy by attending meetings, getting on calls, or simply engaging with others.

So you’ll do your most important work early in the day, and the social stuff later in the day.

Yet that’s not the case for an extrovert.

These people get their energy from social interactions. If you’re an extrovert, you’ll be better off leaving your most important work for later in the day and scheduling the social interactions early, giving you a boost in energy, making it easier to get into the flow and be productive later on.

The great late Stan Lee had a routine like this.

He’d wake up and immediately go to meetings, meet up with people, make plans about future publications, get all the social stuff over with, and then only at 4 pm would he sit down and do his writing for the day.

So the next time you hear productivity advice without any context.

Think about it. How does your personality affect your optimal routine?

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