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🌻 Why Slowing Down Leads to Greater Impact #shorts

27 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video (shorts) by Ashish Kothari arguing that a 9–6 workday combined with practices such as stillness, breaks, and "balcony moments" — bundled under the "Rewire the Sunflower" model — and grounded in self-awareness produced greater client impact, billings, innovation, and overall performance than working late-night hustle hours.

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I literally was getting more done between nine to six than between six to nine, right? Consistently on every measure. Lisa client impact, client billings, feedback on me, new innovation and service lines that I was birthing, firm roles that I was paying on every dimension. I was outperforming a 6 to 9 hustle from 9 to 6 because of exactly that. I had cultivated stillness, I had cultivated breaks, I had cultivated balcony moments. I had picked up many of the practices that became part of Rewire the Sunflower model. And guess what was at the heart of it? Self awareness.