This is one of the most Charmin Ultra Soft things I’ve come across.
Most of these endless life optimizers are not married, have no kids, and podcast for a living.
They’ll track every single thing on earth, have a mandatory 10-step routine for waking up in the morning, and anything fun is a vice.
I just got married this past weekend. I consumed alcohol for 5 days straight, minimally slept, only got one workout in. and had one of the best weekends of my life.
Not once did a homie say “bro have you checked your biomarkers? You should drink this hot tea and turn in at 8pm.”
I like Steven and enjoy his interviews…but I have plenty of homies who tell me they don’t drink and it’s really not that serious.
Here’s the absolute best performance optimizing routine and life system to follow:
Get up, and get after it, until it’s time to go to sleep.
Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life
“It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again”
“It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused”
“I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”