I used to do this and a lot more after work—hell, on my lunch break—while working a 9-5. Until it started paying a lot more than my 9-5.
I'd encourage anyone stuck in life to learn a little about a lot and turn their garage into a business.
"Gym should be the bare minimum, not the pinnacle of effort"
Spot on.
Underachievers treat discipline as the end goal. It doesn't matter whether it's the gym, meditation, studying or the grind. They measure quality by quantity and think the hours themselves are the achievement.
For them it's how hard it was, how long they've been at it, how many projects they've started, how much they sacrificed, how seriously they take it.
They're grading the input, not the output. When in reality, the only thing that matters is what you got from it.
Does it matter that you've read every book on business if you've never taken a single payment?
Does it matter that you've optimized your morning routine if you're still exactly where you were?
Does it matter that you know every theory of attraction if you've never been on a date?
Does it matter that you've tried every form of therapy if nobody around you noticed a difference?
Of course IT DOES NOT MATTER, so never forget this, feeling productive and being productive are two completely different things.
This has been a common trope for a while, in these countries without guns pick pockets are just a part of life but to an American you either get shot or nothing. So being confronted with an unarmed man who thinks they can rob you is at first bewildering to them, and then amusing