I keep hearing: “Easy for you to preach, Bryan. You’re already rich. Sacrificing health is the price of success.” That's incorrect. Had I protected my body and brain, I’d be wealthier and more successful today. I would’ve also skipped a decade of tortuous depression. I'm trying to help you avoid the same mistake. Culture is lying to you. You do not need to martyr yourself to be successful. You will be more successful if you prioritize your health. Health is your compound-interest engine behind every other asset: + better decisions: sleep-restricted CEOs make 29% more risky errors in lab simulations. ▸ greater output: cardiorespiratory-fit workers log 2 extra productive hours per week. ▸ emotional stability: consistent exercise cuts depressive symptoms by ~25 % across 97 RCTs. You only get one body and one brain. Run it down and you have nothing to work with. Burn it out and you're out of the game. Health is your greatest asset. It's what allows you to work, reason, problem solve and persist. It enables a stable mood, clearheadedness, and good judgment. Poor health leads to emotional turbulence, bad decision making, less energy, addictions, and sadness. Health is forgotten until it's the only thing that matters. You do not need to do what I do. I am trying to make a point of being the first Don't Die human prototype. I'm learning everything I can about ideal health and passing the learnings onto you. You can do a fraction of what I do and get the majority of the benefits. Here they are: 1. Make sleep your #1 life priority. Build your life around it. 2. Lower your resting heart rate before bed. You'll learn that which increases your RHR before bed is bad for you and that which lowers your RHR before bed is good for you. I've written a lot about the specifics you can do. Look it up. 3. Exercise every single day. Even if a 20-30 minute walk. Make it a habit. Never skip a day. 4. Build life systems and habits. Don't let your mind decide. You'll nearly always make the wrong decision in the moment. 5. Eat good things and avoid addictive things. 6. Prioritize relationships. You can be ambitions AF and also be healthy. Culture is wrong in telling you that success is only achievable by martyring oneself. That's foolish. Now do the right thing and go exercise and get to bed on time tonight. As you start feeling better, your ambitions will grow with your health status. Trial it and you'll see what I'm talking about.