Ask HN: How do I 3x my performance?
&gt;<i>Generally, I&#x27;m not doing everything I want to do in my life, and I&#x27;m wondering how other people manage to do all the things.</i><p>As if other people do &quot;everything they want to do in their lives&quot;?<p>Don&#x27;t fall for success porn, productivity porn, hustle porn, etc.<p>Who exactly does &quot;all the things&quot;?<p>Over 80% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [1].<p>An untold number struggle with situational depression, opioids, messy family lives, alcoholism, obesity, and such.<p>Tons work on low income, minimum wage jobs.<p>If you don&#x27;t belong to any of these groups, you are achieving way more than the 90% of the people.<p>&gt;<i>I just want to know if I&#x27;m lacking something fundamental: something physical (chemical imbalance? gut microbiome?), some lack of character development (do I lack &quot;grit&quot;? am I undisciplined?), or something else entirely.</i><p>You lack a job telling others BS about your productivity, and selling them conferences, tutorials, sponsored products, seminars and retreats. But then again those are few and far between, and they depend more on having a charismatic persona and good stage presence to sell BS (Tim Ferris and co) than actual productivity.<p>You also luck the conveniences, assistants, etc, rich people have to make them appear as they do &quot;so many things&quot; (when they don&#x27;t have to worry about 80% of what a non-rich person has, from cleaning the house, to picking up the kids).<p>&gt;<i>In the case of the conversation in [0], the user has some external motivation; having faced death by cancer, he now wants to live his best life possible.</i><p>And who said the &quot;best life possible&quot; is to overwork yourself with &quot;two or more full-time tasks during [your] everyday&quot;? That&#x27;s just a sucker myth sold to people to keep them in the rat race.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jul&#x2F;29&#x2F;us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;commentisfree&#x2F;2018&#x2F;jul&#x2F;29&#x2F;us-eco...</a>