[ada1981]

No Booze is the only item on this list that is helpful (as someone who has been the personal coach to Unicorn Founders over the last 20+ years, currently with a waitlist).

For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem.

No Sleep kills your energy and productivity. You need proper sleep to be your best. Could you imagine an NBA player saying the secret to winning an NBA championship is not sleeping and working out all night?

Mastering leadership will get you time back, and prioritizing self care time so you can go hard is the winning combo.

No Fun. Again, you need to recharge, find creative inspiration, have healthy relationships.

Overall, it is a very negative signal if founders are doing #2 & #3. It signals they are trying to cosplay looking like what they think success looks like.

The reason I have a job is because the actual most successful unicorn founders understand they need world class support, coaching, and self care to really build something incredible.

[estearum]

I quit alcohol completely maybe a year ago and it has been nice but I didn't get any sort of dramatic power-up that some people claim. I suspect a lot of the people who quit alcohol and talk about it loudly are those who had a pretty harmful relationship with it to start with. That's not everyone though.

[code_for_monkey]

I know a guy who quit alcohol and was amazed by his weight loss, I asked how much he was drinking and he said "normal amount, 5 or 6 a night"

Thats a lot! For most people quitting alcohol is not going to give that level of boost, even close to it.

[codeduck]

> For certain, the elimination of all alcohol will help everyone achieve more in life. If this triggers you, consider you may have a drug problem.

Oh please. What a puritanical take. There is nothing wrong with the moderate consumption of alcohol - a glass of wine a week is hardly dependency.

[mystraline]

Unfortunately, theres been enough recent papers that indicate alcohol is a carcinogen that causes various types of cancers (colorectal, breast, liver, mouth, voice box, throat and esophageal). And evidently even small amounts raise this carcinogenic risk.

I'll still cook with red wine/meat sauces and white wine/seafood. But at least right now, am reconsidering any alcohol past 20%.

Just look up alcohol cancer risk. Tons of articles from reputable journals. Emotional or religious crap doesn't get me to accept. Science does, and it seems to corroborate. Even if you leave out US government sources for potential compromise of ethics, there are still a great deal of primary journal sources.

https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/most-americans-unaware-o...

Long story short: dont drink alcohol.

[codeduck]

And yet it has also has a significant beneficial effect in the reduction the chance of developing cardiovascular disease.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28521683/

As in all things, informed moderation is the key.

[ada1981]

This is due to primarily resveratrol, not alcohol. You can simply eat red grape skin or take supplements. Also, in these studies the amount of reservatorl used in vitro is at levels you would rarely see in human consumption.

[barbazoo]

If it’s a requirement, it is a dependency.

[ada1981]

A mentor once shared..

How do you know if you have a drug and alcohol problem?

1. Do you have problems in your life?

2. Do you use drugs or alcohol?

Turns out to be a pretty useful mental model.

[codeduck]

And if it's not a requirement, but simply something that is enjoyed? What utter tosh.

[barbazoo]

If one requires it to achieve enjoyment then it’s a dependency. It’s not a controversial or unusual thing. We got to be honest to ourselves.

[codeduck]

I'm at the "whatever" stage of this thread. Gods luck with that.

[ada1981]

Incorrect.

[zingababba]

You sound like a grifter.

[ada1981]

If you find encouraging people to stay sober, take care of themselves and enjoy life to be a grift, it seems like perhaps you've already been conned.

[zingababba]

Lol, what. Calm down bud, do some breathwork.