Brian Johnson argues that consistent daily preparation and sleep significantly affect performance. He emphasizes treating every day like a major performance, planning decisions (when to eat, sleep, act) in advance, and highlights that sleep from two nights before a big event matters most; he supports this with an anecdote about a Super Bowl athlete appearing tired.
So there are no off days. Every day is a Super bowl for me, and it typically tends to be, but now it just is. So when I'm making decisions yesterday, as I'm choosing when I'm going to stop eating, when I'm going to go to sleep, when I'm going to do what I'm thinking of today, so I'm preparing for that call you have tonight, yesterday, the day before that, and Lanny Basham actually says it's two nights before your performance that the sleep matters the most. So again, you're going to have nerves before the super bowl even. I was looking at the Chiefs, whatever, And you look at Ed Mahomes, he looked tired. Do you think he slept great the night before the Super Bowl? Prob. Why not? No, he's up, he's got his nerves going. He's a professional, he knows how to show up, et cetera. But two nights before I do anything big, I'm ready. I'm getting ready to do it. So I'm getting my energy dialed in. Because if my energy isn't where I need it to be, then I won't be able to focus it with the intensity with which I want to in order to show up with as much wisdom and self mastery and love and courage and all the other things.
