You were dropped into a world your brain (mind) was never built for—your ancestors only had to survive the day, but you’re managing a thousand micro-battles before breakfast. And you don’t stop. You don’t rest. You accelerate.

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.

Most people are addicted to distraction. Not because they want to be — but because the world profits when you scatter your attention. And your 20s are wasted if you can’t focus on One Thing. If you want mastery and real results, pick one thing and focus on it until it works. Period. That’s it. That’s the lever you’re ignoring.

We all have a threshold for the amount of success, love, or joy we allow ourselves to hold. The moment we flirt with a life beyond that threshold, our nervous system protests, and we find ways to sabotage the excess.