The speaker works sick and on weekends because showing up every day, even for a few minutes, beats perfect optimization. Most people think about productivity without acting. The gap isn't between knowing and not knowing, it's between doing and not doing.
This is why I work when I'm sick and on weekends. Adherence is more important than optimization. So if you do actually something for a short period of time that day, you're still doing more than other people. And it's this saying that people go like, oh yeah, I get it. But do you actually get it? You know you need to send out more DMs. You know you need to read more books. Did you actually read more books? Like, some of these things you know you should do, you just don't.
