Pavel Durov

So what I end up doing is I end up lying in bed thinking.

And some people hate it.

They say, you have to take a sleeping pill, but I never take pills.

I love these moments.

I get so many brilliant ideas, or at least they seem brilliant to me at the moment, while

I'm lying in bed either late in the evening or early in the morning.

That's my favorite time of the day.

Sometimes I wake up, I go take a shower, still without the phone,

Beautiful ideas can come to you while you're doing your morning exercise, your morning routine, without a phone.

If you open your phone first thing in the morning, what you end up being is a creature that is told what to think about for the rest of the day.

Same is true in a way if you've been consuming news from social media late at night.

But then how do you define what is important and what you really want to become in life?

Now, I'm not saying you have to completely stay away from all sources of information, but take some time to think about what's really important for you and what you want to change in this world.

I know it's kind of counterintuitive because I founded one of the largest social networks in the world, after which I founded the second largest messaging app in the world.

And you're supposed to be really connected.

But the conclusion you reach very early is that the more connected and accessible you are, the less productive you are.

And then how can you run this thing if you're constantly bombarded by all kinds of information, most of which is irrelevant to the success of what you're trying to build?

You know, the entire world can be fascinated by a fight, a quarrel between the world's richest man and the world's most powerful man.

But for the vast majority of these people following this saga, it's irrelevant.

It won't change their lives.