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Never Get Up Before Noon — Why I Hate The Early Morning Brigade!
There was an article in the Sunday Telegraph a few years ago. If you’re not familiar with this, it’s the UK Conservative Party’s Pravda — a tediously self-righteous rag that panders to the dumb insecurities of Middle England.
It ran an article with the headline:
“What All Successful People Have in Common — They Get Up Very Early!”
Unsurprisingly, the article was populated by a load of pompous start-up entrepreneurs, business moguls, tycoons, and bankers. Not one painter, artist, writer, or actor in sight — or even a politician. Clearly, they weren’t successful enough to make it onto the Telegraph’s all star list of early risers.
The piece was utter garbage of course. It seemed the only criteria you needed was £100 million in the bank and a Bang & Olufsen clock radio permanently set to 5 a.m. Thus allowing you the luxury of waking up to a meditative yogic jingle before you slugged open your laptop to see what the markets were doing in the Far East.
This wasn’t about how incredible it was to be up early. This was about sipping decaf, lo-fat lattes while staring at a flickering matrix of ever-changing stock prices. This was about making money!
