[khazhoux]

The single most important task for a CEO at a large company is to publicize their daily schedule, describing how they rise at either 5am or 6am (Holmes goes a step further), and then work out and take care of a large amount of business before the rest of the common people even wake up. Bonus points for preparing and having breakfast with your small children after your workout and morning email/decision-making routine. Additional bonus points for family time every evening, as well as prolific reading across a multitude of subjects.

It is imperative that people understand the CEO's total superiority over the common person. They do not sleep like everyone else. They don't waste or lose time like everyone else. They do not neglect their family. Their body is toned and strong. Their mind is focused and cultured, with an insatiable appetite for information.

Behold, I bring you: the CEO!

[kshacker]

Wow you pretty much describe me ... except for me being a CEO, or a CxO, or even just an O. So I guess just my superiority over everyone else. I guess I will take it.

[girafffe_i]

Considering the timezone, her getting up at 4AM GMT+8 is ahead of the world, but still 3 hours before Australia.

Australia gets up before everyone, they should be dominating.

[mdoms]

It is so funny to me when people on this website absolutely refuse to believe that some people really do like to rise early and get things done in the morning.

I almost certainly get lots of stuff done before you get out of bed. You probably get more done than I do in the evening. I don't know why so many of you get bent out of shape about the former but not the latter.

[khazhoux]

Oh, the CEO superman mythos is not just about the early rise-time. That's just part of the story of pure ascetic discipline without any detectable sacrifice along any axis. Perfect execution at work, perfect maintenance over one's health and physical shape, perfect family life, perfect mental conditioning and intellectual enrichment. In other words, CEOs are better than any and all of us, in every possible way.

[lokedhs]

There is a great parody made about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U

I recommend it, it's rather spot on.

[theshrike79]

We aren't criticising people who get up early. It's people who claim to do the Mark Wahlberg routine[0]

  2:30 a.m. wake up
  2:45 a.m. prayer time
  3:15 a.m. breakfast #1: steel oats, peanut butter, blueberries, and eggs
  3:40-5:15 a.m. workout #1
  5:30 a.m. breakfast #2: protein shake, three turkey burgers, five pieces of sweet potato
  6 a.m. shower
  7:30 a.m. golf
  8 a.m. snack: 10 turkey meatballs
  9:30 a.m. cryo chamber recovery
  10:30 a.m. breakfast #3: grilled chicken salad with two hard-boiled eggs, olives, avocado, cucumber, tomato, and lettuce
  11 a.m. family time/meetings/work calls
  1 p.m. lunch: New York steak with green peppers
  2 p.m. meetings/work calls
  3 p.m. pick up kids from school
  3:30 p.m. snack: grilled chicken with bok choy
  4 p.m. workout #2
  5 p.m. shower
  5:30 p.m. dinner/family time: fish (halibut or cod or sea bass) with veggies (such as sautéed spinach and bok choy)
  7:30 p.m. bedtime

According to this schedule, Wahlberg has eaten three breakfasts before I've eaten anything. Is he a hobbit? :D

[0]: https://manofmany.com/lifestyle/fitness/mark-wahlbergs-diet-...