Mike Andes argues that relying on daily stimulants like coffee and comfort rituals makes you fragile and easy to outcompete. Immigrant entrepreneurs succeed because they don't need these dependencies to function, maintaining higher baseline productivity and resilience.
People literally have this notion that unless I have my cup of coffee in the morning, I won't be able to operate. Hook me up.
Don'T get my cold plunge or my sauna, or if I. If I'm not able to have this relationship, or if I don't have this drug. Like, we must have that in order to be successful. And this is why a lot of times I see immigrants be very successful financially and in entrepreneurship because they didn't have all of those dependencies, they didn't have the coffee, they weren't able to have all these niceties that we now have created dependencies on and makes us easy to kill. If you are one caramel macchiato away from having an unproductive day, you're going to be an easy competitor to beat.
