I wake up noon earlier than everyone else, a whole day ahead.

And smart investments.

and when no one else is watching*

For sure there’s efforts involved but treating yourself like a tyrant it’s not sustainable. You might well “succeed” and turn yourself into a wreck in the way. Just have a balance of intelligent hard work and times to decompress and relax.

Hence ... hard proof of work.

Inheritance, nepotism and crime are underrated 😂

I think what you're also getting at is that, even if we agree on the definition of convential success, reaching it still requires a whole lot of random things going the right way for you. This is what Taleb talks about when he mentions the concept of Extremistan: social dinamics work in such a way that outcomes are not equally distributed. You can have a 100 writers sit down and work very hard on their books for 5 years, but maybe only one of them is going to sell 10 million copies while the second best might reach at best 100 thousand copies. Is this right or wrong? This is just what reality is like. Hard work is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition.

Shout out nepotism 🫡🫡🫡

I'll skip the sleepless nights unless you talking about dealing with a newborn.