This is Optimal Living Daily, Episode 1681. Consider, Commit, Lock, by Tynan of Tynan.com,

and I'm Justin Mollick. You're very own personal narrator today and every day,

including weekends and holidays, so it's not a typical podcast, there are no interviews,

and it's short almost always fewer than 10 minutes. And with that, let's get right to it,

and start optimizing your life.

Consider, Commit, Lock, by Tynan of Tynan.com.

People often comment that I have a lot of discipline. Even if you go through some comments on posts

in this blog, you'll see people saying that. I even agree with them. I've been working this

polyphasic thing for over two months now. Very few nights have gone by that haven't involved

in intense struggle to stave off sleepiness. The funny thing is that I used to be completely

undisciplined. It was almost a joke amongst my friends and families. What changed? Listen on.

The problem was that I didn't trust myself. If I said I'm going to not eat meat for 30 days,

I knew that since I was undisciplined that it might not actually be true. So when day three

rolled around and I saw hamburger, I think subconsciously, well, I wasn't going to make it 30 days anyway,

and I'd chow down. Even small things like saying, I'm going to go to sleep after one more game

would just stretch. My promises to myself were worthless. Maybe you have a similar problem.

I think most people do. Just look on Wikipedia at all of the people who tried polyphasic sleeping.

Some have been deleted, but the sad fact is that at least 95% of people have given up. They knew

when they started that they might not follow through. So when they were tired at 5 a.m. one day,

they just sighed and went back to sleep. The truth is that I am probably less suited to adapting

to this than any of those people. I haven't had to use an alarm in years. I had no structure to my

sleeping patterns, and I routinely slept for 9 to 10 hours per day. The only reason I'm still

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