Report Card [April]: Sleep, Food, Water, Exercise
In “How to Win”, Daniel Gross talks about the importance of going for the long game and making sure you do well on the basics, Sleep, Food, Water, Exercise. 1
Sleep: Score (3 / 5)
- I don't have trouble falling asleep. I sleep 6-7 hours at night. And at least an hour a day. Though my sleep cycle is not stable, which doesn't allow me to form stable habits during the day. Daniel mentioned that a lot of programmers have a 25 hour sleep cycle, as in you sleep 12-8 today, then 1-9 next day, 2-10 day after and so on. I think this might be true.
What can I improve?
I feel having a stable sleep cycle of say 11-6 will really help.
Food: Score (4 / 5)
- Food situation is pretty sorted. We have an amazing cook, he cooks healthy food. We pretty much have no junk food in the house. I eat some sweets outside every once in a while, but that's okay.
What can I improve?
Add more fruits in my diet. Maybe reduce sugar.
Water: Score (2 / 5)
I don't think I drink enough water. I often feel I want to drink something, then I go to the fridge, see there is nothing and then go back. We should stock up our fridge. I used to drink a lot of soda with lemon or salt earlier, it feels nice in summer. I can resume that.
Exercise: (3 / 5)
- Exercise is sorted. I have been lifting regularly, reaching a Dead Lift of 95 KG 1 RPM 💪🏻 We have a home gym setup.
- I am on the PD Magnan's 1 hour week fitness routine suggested by flatmate Sreejith [1]. I do 2 workout sessions of 40 minutes each, per week.
What can I do better?
Do some running as well.
Overall: 12/20, this is a passable score
Let's revisit these every month and see if I can improve. At the very least, the score shouldn’t decrease.
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He also mentions Leadership, don’t think there is an easy way to measure that. In anycase, people working with me are better equiped to talk about it.
Let me publish this report card for at least 6 months. I'll decide then if I want to continue doing this or maybe I'll change the format.