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Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule by adventured on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:49PM (#29398948)
She seems to be sociopathic, it wouldn't be very surprising if she practiced variations of a schedule like this with the intent of molding herself into an image/fantasy of success, as she was appraently trying to do with quasi copying Jobs. It is certainly unlikely she was able to rigidly maintain a daily schedule like that.
Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule by sky_rw on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:17PM (#29399135)
Daily affirmations and goals like this are part of nearly every self help system on the market. This is straight out of a Tony Robbins style life success guide.
Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule by fragmede on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @06:57PM (#29398995)
Executives, whether they're sociopaths or not, don't have to hold that schedule all on their own. They have executive assistants and personal assistants (not always different people) to help them with that. I dunno, if I had someone who's job it was to help keep me on that schedule, I think I'd have better luck than the plebes do, don't you?
Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule by handrous on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:08PM (#29399058)
Not having to do any of your own: housekeeping/cooking/laundry; child-running-around (if you have kids); maintenance on anything including even scheduling work to be done; driving; schedule-keeping; filtering (turning down calls and such from people you have no intention of talking to—your assistant does that for you); shopping (even for stuff you want, but don't need—"assistant; I'd like an X by next week, please find me a good one") et c., really would free up a lot of time & energy.
Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule by FireBeyond on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:50PM (#29399358)
Very true. There's a meme I see every so often. "Work out for an hour a day. It's 4% of your day. What's your excuse?"

Uhh, well, other than the fact that it's closer to 25% of my _available_ day (8h sleep, 8h work, 1h commute, 1h preparation, 1h meals), you mean?

Re:Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule by cbsmith on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:44PM (#29399319)
You also might want to write it down for them, so there'd be no confusion between you.