#128 Your Rightness Is a Cage You Built From Where You Stand

Most advice is someone else's autobiography wearing a suit.

When your friend tells you to wake up early, they're not describing a universal law. They're describing what worked for their body, their metabolism, their obligations, their anxieties. You are running on different hardware. The same input will not produce the same output.

The useful question isn't 'what's the right way to do this?' It's 'what does this advice assume about the person it works for?' Once you can see the assumptions, you can test whether any of them hold for you.

Most of what you call 'discipline' is just finding an environment where your natural tendencies stop fighting you.