I Wanna Be A Heavy Hitter

On Anxiety, Sleeping On Floors, and Bill Gates

Author

David Millar
March 11, 2024

10 Topics, Every Week, To Keep You Fired Up

First Five- From Outside Authors

Last Five- From Me

  1. Anxiety

A strong mission/purpose/journey cures anxiety and depression in almost all cases…speaking from experience.

  1. Bill Gates

“He was living on the edge. It was not unusual for him to go as long as three days without sleep.

His habit was to do 36 hours or more at a stretch, collapse for ten hours, then go out, get a pizza, and go back at it. And if that meant starting again at three o’clock in the morning, so be it…

In the early days of Microsoft, it was more common than not for other employees to arrive at the office in the morning and trip over Gates asleep on the floor, at his desk, or curled up in a corner.”

I am starting to think that a prerequisite of achieving career greatness is spending at least a half-a-decade sleeping on office floors…very rare that I come across a Heavy Hitter who hasn’t done this.

  1. Sleep On Floors (made for iphone wallpaper)

  1. Great Artists

Heavy Hitters are all three, or some combination of another three. And, somehow, they’ve managed to turn all these misfortunes in unlimited fuel sources.

  1. Winning

“Winning requires you to be different, and different scares people. So if you're worried about what others will say, the long-term effects, the sacrifices you'll make, the sleep you'll lose, your family being angry... I can't help you with that. There's nothing "typical" about the lifestyle and choices you'll have to make. Winning is inside all of us, but for most, that's where it will stay, trapped under a lifetime of fear and worry and doubt.”

  1. The Right Mission

  1. Lofty Goals Only

  1. Sober Is Becoming The New Drunk

  1. Be Different

  1. Never ‘Force It’

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