Being me comes with some specificities. One that comes from birth is that I always want to keep going, as long as I like what I’m doing, even if it’s just being awake. Another is the fact that I have no breaks.

For countless times I have failed commitments and appointments of all sorts simply because the previous day I went to sleep at sunrise. Sometimes, like last night, it’s no big deal because I didn’t have any specific ultra-crucial deadline, and it was actually a constructive all-nighter because I was writing blog posts that I consider pretty prioritary. Other times though, it can be pretty disruptive, because I mess with other people’s lives and just plain waste interesting opportunities and often further damage the trust people may still have in me.

This flawed performance is not fun and it doesn’t even really seem to benefit my life in any way. At most, the fact that my case is so extreme puts me in a position of wanting pretty bad to solve this in some way. And I also think about the millions of brilliant people all over the world that must suffer from the exact same difficulties and certainly long for a sustainable way of overcoming this massive hindrance to one’s personal and social success.

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