And the third tip, we outlined the subject just before, is to understand that productivity consists more in managing your energy than your time. We always say time management, time management, etc. In fact, it's not the key, in my opinion, and it took me a while to understand it. But I really think that the key is energy management.
Having more time doesn't mean that we're going to do more things, that we'll get more results, for the simple reason that we can't be at our best all the time, we can't be motivated all the time. It's logical. Our body gets tired, our brain gets tired, even faster. For example, it's impossible to have attention, to be 100% focused for 8 hours, it's impossible. Those who tell you that they work for 8 hours completely, without stopping, and who are focused and concentrated all the time, are either very very special, that is to say that they represent a tiny minority, or they're lying to you and they're probably lying to themselves too, but it's impossible. So, the key is really to know yourself and to manage your energy. We adapt our activities according to our energies.
it a lot, I adapt my sleep to how I manage my energy. I know that I need to go to bed before midnight, clearly. If I go to bed at midnight and get up at 8 o'clock, I'll be tired, even if I have 8 hours of sleep. If I go to bed at 9:30 p.m. and get up at 5:30 a.m., as I do all week, I'll be in great shape. So, I know myself and I adapt my activities. I know korea whatsapp number data that I'm much more creative in the morning than in the afternoon. So, in the morning, I do my creative work. I write emails, I write scripts, I do what's creative. In the afternoon, I do more administrative work. I do the most difficult things at the beginning of the week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. At the end of the week, Thursday, Friday, it's more administrative work, strategy, preparation.
But all of that can be tested in fact. It will probably be different for you, but the idea is to test, because you have to know yourself, you have to know yourself. You have to know yourself. Know yourself, Socrates said. It was written on the temple of Delphi in Athens. I often repeat this phrase because it is often these mythical and ancient phrases that are the truest. We have been talking about it for 2000 years, so it must be true, there is truth in it. So, you simply have to know yourself.
If you want to keep your energy, you also have to avoid forcing yourself. So, of course, it's difficult because sometimes you don't feel like doing things. Sometimes I don't feel like writing an article, an email, or I don't feel like recording a video, but you have to do it.
So, for that, to avoid forcing yourself in a stupid and brutal way, I invite you to try to put in place a spirit of joy. It is part of my three personal values that I spoke about in a previous podcast: faith, serenity and joy. Well, I am joyful. Even if I don't feel like doing it, I put myself in a joyful mode. So, I sing, I whistle. When we prepare the material, sometimes, I don't feel like recording the videos, well I prepare the material, I do it while whistling, singing, I laugh, I make jokes to Céline. And suddenly, I put myself in a joyful state of mind, because when you force yourself, it is necessarily much more difficult to do things.