Lori Harder delivers a short spoken reflection warning against treating one-size-fits-all business or productivity advice as gospel. She emphasizes that businesses and people differ, recounts how adopting the "5am Club" routine harmed her energy and productivity for months, and critiques prescriptive rules that may fail many despite being bestselling ideas.
I don't think there's a perfect way to run a business. Nor do I think there's a perfect way to be in order to run a business. Every business is so different. What could be working for one person and is is like actually changing the trajectory of getting them on a good path. And you tell them that the modality that they're using to get on a good path is not right then it can totally throw you off. I remember even in business there was this whole conversation about like the 5am Club. Like you won't be successful if you don't wake up at 5am and then it turned to 4am and I was like, I'm such a loser because I need my sleep. And I'm like, but I'm up at 7:30 or 7. I'm so lazy. And it really got in my head. So I tried the 5aM thing and I was a wreck for like six months. So it's all of these things that you just can't take for gospel. It was probably a great book that was a bestseller because it was a new concept to people but it failed people.
