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I'm sorry but that's bullshit and unsustainable imo. I say that as someone who has worked nearly 100 weeks of 80+ hours over my career and has worked 100 hour weeks for a month or two.

It's not believable that Mayer worked 130 hours per week for 5 years.



Its technically possible, all you have to do is put sleep in your task list.


Mayer apparently has the gene that makes you not require (much) sleep. About 3% of the population carries a genetic mutation that means they only need about 3.5-4 hours of sleep a night. I had a friend back in college that was like this (her father was too), and apparently a number of famous achievers have "suffered" from this.




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