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Arjun laughed bitterly at the "Myth of the Morning Person" section. He’d spent years forcing himself into a 6 a.m. routine, hating every bleary second. Thorpe suggested a radical alternative: track your brain’s natural energy peaks for a week, then align your hardest work with your zenith, not society’s. For Arjun, that was 10 p.m. to midnight. To counter this, The Brain Book offers practical
Arjun tried it the next day, after botching a client call. The inner voice snarled: You’re a fraud. They know now. Old Arjun would have spiraled. New Arjun, channeling Thorpe, paused and asked: What is the actual data? The client had laughed at his joke. They’d rescheduled, not cancelled. The evidence of fraud was… thin. The spiral stopped. Thorpe suggested a radical alternative: track your brain’s