David Jenyns argues that uninterrupted focus time is the highest-ROI skill. He keeps mornings from 5am to noon meeting-free for deep work, scheduling all meetings after noon. The advice: protect the bookends of your day for focused work, whether that's early morning or late evening.
Like, the single greatest skill in my opinion is being able to find a place that you can shut out external stimuli and you can focus. Yes. Because for me, the single highest ROI habit that I have is that for me, between 5am and noon, I have nothing on my calendar. It is just work, no meetings. And then all my meetings happen after noon. For the entrepreneur, if you're like, in a job right now, then it's got to be in the morning before you go to work and in the evening after you come back from work. But having that dedicated time, and if you're like, I'm not a morning person, fine, then just work late. That's okay. Like, I've. I've got billionaire buddies who are like, oh, I wake up at 10, but they work really late. That's their special time that no one bothers them. It tends to be at the book ends of the day, though, just from my experience, because in the middle of the day, you get pestered and it's hard to get into that deep focus that really, that deep learning that you get when you really pour yourself into something.
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