At its simplest, Morning Pages is a daily “brain dump”—a way to sweep the cobwebs out of your mind before you start your day. I used to write in a notebook as a kid. Slowly, though, I became guilty of being influenced by digitization—of wanting to be cool enough to write in apps like Notion.

This is what nobody tells you about the 5 AM club, the early morning routine explosion, and the entire “discipline is the answer” movement.  It operates on a dangerous assumption: that everyone’s body works the same way, and that if yours doesn’t, you’re not trying hard enough. But that assumption is wrong. And it’s costing people their health, their peace of mind, and ironically, their productivity.