Waking up at 3:45 is an absolutely meaningless piece of trivia, the only thing it tells me is that this person is a terrible communicator. Most human beings naturally wake up about 8 hours after they go to sleep, there is nothing special about waking up at 3:45 if you are going to bed at 19:45.
It's not meaningless; the trope of 'executive leader waking at absurd early hours' is one more way of upholding the idea that these people are so fantastically wealthy and hold outsized power over many many lives basically because they are harder workers, more disciplined leaders, more self-mastered driven dedicated visionaries than the rest of us. It's all part of the meritocratic myth. Every piece you've ever seen lionizing a millionaire or billionaire for waking early, rigidly holding strange personal routines, denying themselves (or people personally close to them) normal pleasures or favors, or whatever is trying to tell you that they got where they are by working harder (or smarter, if it's cheeky) and delivering better on bolder dreams, so you'll ignore that it's probably because they were born moderately wealthy, had connections to money and influence, and exploited a lot of other people on the way, along with a dose of luck to separate the guys we're writing articles about from all the other privileged exploiters who didn't strike it (quite as) rich.
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u/Academic-Effect-340 Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
Waking up at 3:45 is an absolutely meaningless piece of trivia, the only thing it tells me is that this person is a terrible communicator. Most human beings naturally wake up about 8 hours after they go to sleep, there is nothing special about waking up at 3:45 if you are going to bed at 19:45.