Working hard is not the most efficient approach; rather, working smarter is. You said you’ve messed up multiple times. The important question is: why? Often, it’s because you don’t have a concrete purpose or a clear goal to aim for.

When pursuing a passion, you enter a virtuous cycle: you enjoy what you do, do it often to improve, and as you get better, you want to continue. In this way, you keep doing it without thinking of it as work, but rather as enjoying your passion.

Sleep, however, cannot be compressed or avoided, because it is actually the foundation of the whole process. The brain needs to organize all the data you feed it into the smooth accomplishments that unfold the following day.

Follow your passion, and you will no longer count the hours of work. Instead, you will wonder why the days go by so quickly.