Michael Chernow

But why can't I just watch a movie, man?

You know, like if I didn't have an email,

The biggest deals in history were done prior to email.

Rockefeller got real rich without email.

You know, like, how can we do that?

What can we do?

Like, how can we kind of slow it down?

Well, what I did at Creatures of Habit is once I saw...

I was able to pivot out of the restaurant business and create this new business where like, you know, the busiest time of my day was not between 7 o'clock and 11 p.m., 7 p.m.

and 11 p.m., which was the busiest part of my day as a restaurateur.

I said to the team, hey, I'm not going to start emailing expecting you to respond earlier than 8.30 in the morning.

I will not... I might...

I might start banging out emails early if I have like a deadline or if I have something.

But I don't expect you to respond earlier than 8.30 in the morning.

Similarly, I close my computer every single night at 5.30.

I do it.

Committed, I do it.

And it was hard for me to do that because I was like, dude, are you really a nine to five guy?

And then it dawned on me.

Nine to five is done for a reason.