Project Wayne: Journey to Becoming a Modern Polymath

Project Wayne aims to achieve polymath status by mastering diverse skills through effective time management and disciplined training.

### Becoming a Modern Polymath: Project Wayne Week 20 Updates
* ♂ Project Wayne focuses on becoming a **modern polymath**, akin to Bruce Wayne, excelling in multiple fields such as **athletics and business acumen**.
* 🏋 Currently, I am training to break the world record for pull-ups in 24 hours, aiming for a target of **approximately 10,000 pull-ups**, with progress tracked on my website.
* 📚 I am pursuing the CPA certification to enhance my business knowledge, studying five hours daily, although I fell short last week with only **23 hours of study**.
* 🏃 In addition to my CPA studies, I am training for a marathon, managing my time between **cardio, weight training, and listening to audiobooks** during workouts.
* ⏰ Time management is a key focus, as I strive to **optimize my waking hours**, but I have identified sleep as a **significant barrier** to achieving my goals.
* 📊 I am implementing polyphasic sleep patterns to **maximize productivity**, although I struggle with consistency and often **oversleep**, which disrupts my schedule.
* 🍽 I am also looking to improve my meal prep efficiency to **reduce the time spent eating**, aiming for a balance between **enjoyment and productivity**.
* 📝 Lastly, I plan to track my time more meticulously to uncover where I am **losing hours each day**, as I believe this will lead to **improved time management and productivity overall**.

This is week 20 of project Wayne. What project Wayne is about is becoming a polymath, such as Bruce Wayne in real life. What a polymath is, is someone that excels in multiple different areas. Like when you think of an Olympic athlete, you usually think that they're very athletic, they're very strong, they're very good at their sport, but in general, you might not really think of them as a very smart person. Whereas a polymath is able to have maybe Olympic-level athleticism or strength while also having the expertise and the knowledge of a PhD or a doctor. So, I think Bruce Wayne is a really good example of what a modern polymath could be: someone that has good business knowledge, they're very athletic, and they're interested in and excel in a multitude of different areas that often don't have any correlation to each other. So, this video is going to be going over in two sections. It's going to be one, have updates on some current projects. So, some things that I'm pursuing as a polymath is the world record and

pull-ups. I'm trying to become a businessman. Right now, I'm working on the CPA, the certified public accountant certification, and then later on, I plan to work on the CFA, the chartered financial analyst. And then, I'm training for a marathon, so I do cardio training a lot, I do weight training a lot, I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and I'm basically trying to manage my time as well as possible. In the comics, Bruce Wayne leaves Gotham for seven years, and he comes back as the perfect polymath. He knows 127 different martial arts, he knows pretty much and is fluent in every single language that exists, he has this chemical knowledge that he uses in his detective skills, he has Olympic-level strength and athleticism, and pretty much every other aspect he needs to operate as Batman. Um, so like I said, this video is going to be split into two parts: one where it's going to be updates to current projects that I'm working on, some of the ones that I just discussed, and then the

second section is going to be on time management, so it's going to be talking about some issues that I've identified while trying to become a polymath, and then some potential fixes to those issues. So, the first part is updates on the current project. So, like I said, I'm trying to become the world record holder in the most amount of pull-ups done in 24 hours. You might know this world record from when David Goggins held it a couple of years back. Right now, I believe it's around 99,100 in 24 hours, but when I believe that I'll be ready for it, it'll probably be around 10,000, which is approximately 100 every 14 or 15 minutes. So, I've been practicing in sets of 100 or workouts of 100. So, on Monday, I did 100 in 22 minutes. On Friday, I did 130 minutes, and then on Sunday, I did it in 38 minutes. And you can see a graph tracking my progress on my website projectwayne.com. And this I

have it automated so it updates automatically after I finish a workout. Um, if you go on there, and I might throw the graph up in this video, you can see how I started out, and I was all over the place, and now I've gotten into the rhythm of things. So, you can see there's a trend where I'm going down towards that 14 to 15-minute per 100 pull-ups pace, and I'm kind of staying steady while slowly improving my pace, whereas I used to be all over the place. Uh, in terms of CPA studying, again, that's the certified public accountant. Uh, the reason why I'm getting this certification is so that I... I'm trying to build up my business acumen, not necessarily because I want to become and have a job as a CPA, uh, but so I understand the accounting behind business, because accounting is the language of business. So, if you understand accounting, you're going to be a better businessman. So, what I'm trying to do is get that certification. That's my first certification. I'm

working towards and I'm currently working on the financial accounting and Reporting test of the CPA. There's four tests, and that'll be my first one, and I'm trying to study five hours a day. Um, so I'll throw up a Time log of my time studying, but I wasn't able to reach the 35 hours or 5 hours a day this week. Although I am getting better, uh, I think last week I did 23 hours of studying. Again, that's supposed to be TW 35. And then the week before, I did 16 hours. So I'm slowly working my way up to actually hitting those five hours of study per day. Um, an update to this: I got approved. My education was approved. So I went to school in person for my first bachelor's, and then my second bachelor's, I was actually able to do while I was still working on my first bachelor's. I just did this one online, and that one was my degree in accounting. And to become CPA, you need 150 credits. So thankfully, my bachelor's having two

Bachelors is kind of a stupid idea, but for me, thankfully, it worked out. I just got approved to sit for the CPA exam. So, um, in a couple, in about a month, I have to leave for business for anywhere from 4 and a half months to a year. Um, so the uploads are going to slow down, and I won't really be able to study a whole lot, but I should be able to maybe knock out my goals to knock out the first CPA exam before I leave on that trip. Um, so I got to squeeze in a lot of work before I leave. Um, and another thing I'm trying to squeeze in before I leave is my real estate license. That's the, that's one aspect of business I'm trying to go into. That would be something that Bruce Wayne would take advantage of because there's a lot of tax advantages to it. It, and there's, it's a good way to build passive wealth so that he has time to work on other skills towards becoming Batman, and that's how I'm trying to

become Batman in real life. A lot of it is through learning real estate and starting my business in real estate, trying to buy investment properties as many as I can, and then building up that passive income stream so I'm able to transition into my daytime activities split into more Batman-esque activities. Such as something I want to do in the future is go to stuntman schools. They teach defensive or Defensive Driving, they teach stunt driving, like swimming, all these kind of stunt performer activities that Bruce Wayne would know. And there's actually schools for them that you can go to in person. So once I have a good economic base that I can do that where I don't have to be working during the day, that's one of the things I'm going to be working on. So I think that's everyone for everything I wanted to go over at the CV. I'm slowly working my way up to studying five hours a day, and then I got to get them. I got

to finish studying for that exam before I leave on this trip because I won't. I don't know if I'll be able to study on the trip because I'll be very busy. Uh, so cardio. I'm training for a marathon. I've run marathons before, um, but I'm trying to reduce my time, and this is something that Batman and would you'd be very well conditioned, so it's something I'm working on as well. Um, so I missed a couple runs in the past week. I'm going to talk about why this happened later, and I only was able to do three runs in the past week, um, for a total of a little bit more than 12 miles. And then you can see this live data as well on my website. I have this link to my straa, so whenever I do a straa run, it automatically uploads to the site, and you can see my average pace, the time it took me, the mileage, and everything. So I'm not someone that just goes online and then talks about

themselves that to just make content. The main thing is the activities that I'm doing to improve myself, and then the afterthought is making this video um so you can see that I'm actually doing the work that I say I do um. Again, my website is Projectplan.com. I write up a lot about how I'm able to do a lot of the stuff, like how I'm financing getting multiple degrees and stuff like that. Everything that's related in the project I when I have time I upload stuff on there in written form um. So, audiobooks, I'm trying to take advantage of all the time in my day where I'm not actively using my ears for something um. So, for example, when I'm on a run and I'm in the middle of nowhere, like I'm not crossing streets or anything, that's a good time for me to listen to an audiobook while I'm working out uh. Because sometimes my runs are like an hour long uh. For example, today I ran a little bit under five miles and it took me I think 45 minutes.

It wasn't the fastest, but that's almost an hour I could have spent studying to an audiobook. Unfortunately, I didn't because I'm not at that level yet where I'm able to motivate myself to be able to run hard while listening to an audiobook. But eventually, I want to get there. So pretty much whenever I'm not using my ears actively, I want to be using or listening to an audiobook. Right now, I think since starting this project, I've listened to about 16 U, but I want to get up to the point where I'm able to be so efficient with my time that every single day I'm able to finish one audiobook. So I haven't been able to finish any audiobooks in the past week, but that's mostly because I haven't had a lot of time where I'm not doing something. I'll talk about that a little bit later. But the book I'm currently reading is Crash of the Titans. It's about the of Merrill Lynch, the bank.

and then it's about 17 hours long, so I think I'm about eight hours in. So, that typically would be one completed book, but since it's so long, I'm only about halfway through it. I haven't been able to finish a book this week, but the time that I do listen to these audiobooks right now, the biggest contributor of time on this is my commute to work. So, I spend about an hour to an hour and a half on the train every day in the morning, and then the same at night. So, that's three hours, that's two to three hours I spend every day listening to the audiobook. And then also at the same time while I'm on the train, I work out my forearms. So, I'm being really efficient with my time on the train rather than doing nothing and wasting it, which leads me there is a good segue into my next section on time management. As its core project, Wayne trying to become a polymath, trying to become someone that's fluent in all these

different areas um at its core project Wayne is a project in time management trying to see how efficient at using one's time someone can become. Like I mentioned earlier, Bruce Wayne disappeared for seven years. Then he came back, and he knew pretty much everything he needed to become Batman. So, imagine how efficient his time management must have been in those years um to be able to learn, you know, the skills, you know, to become a detective, have become the world's best detective, know the martial arts he knows, become fluent in multiple languages, fighting styles, and etc. And he has like the equivalent of a PhD in multiple areas U such as chemistry and biology and stuff. So, he must be really good at time management. So, at its essence, that's what project Wayne is trying to achieve, trying to explore how well someone can become at time management. And throughout the two years, I've been working on this project for about two years um. I think I'm almost close to three years. I think it'll be three years in about one or two

two or three months, um, I've gotten a lot better at time management when I'm awake, and I'll talk about what I mean by that in a second, but I feel like I've sort of plateaued in the past maybe month. So right now, I'm able to see the time, what I'm missing, but I'm trying, I'm still struggling to fix those gaps. And what I mean by when I'm awake, that I'm much more efficient, is one of the biggest issues that I've run into over the past almost three years of trying to improve myself to Batman levels is sleep. So, the average person sleeps, I think it's like a third of their life, uh, so that's obviously one of the biggest, if not the biggest, area in which you could be time management. M time management would increase the amount of work and the amount of, you know, achievements you're able to achieve in your lifetime, um, but for me, it's been my biggest obstacle because I seem to need a whole lot more sleep than normal people. Um, for example

Yesterday, I accidentally fell asleep at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon. I only woke up this morning at 6:00 a.m. And even when I sleep like 8 hours, which is still a good amount of time, I'm not able to wake myself up with my alarm unless I know I have something that's going to be an extreme negative consequence if I don't get up. So, for example, if I had to go to work in the morning at 8, I wouldn't be able to force myself to get up until like 7:45. So, let's say if I'm able to get to work in like 10 minutes, I wouldn't be able to bring myself to stop the alarm clock, like hit the snooze button, until it's at that last second. Um, and I'm not really sure why that is. Um, I got as far as to buy a device that attaches to my arm and gives me an electric shock when it's time to wake up. And I'll even

just either sleep through the shock or just take it off my arm and my sleep and throw it across the room. Even when I take my phone and I put it on the other side of the room, I'll sleepwalk over there, turn the alarm off, and go back to sleep. And then I won't even realize I did that until I've been up for a couple of hours. There was like, I'll have like a kind of like a memory in my head. I'll be like, I think I think I had some dream about my alarm going off. And then I realized that it was, that would actually happen. So waking up has been, and sleeping has been the biggest obstacle to me. That's been sucking up a lot of my time and seemingly wasting my time. I do work out a lot, like I said. I do weight training six times a week. I run between four and five to six times a week. And I do my world record pull-up training, usually around three times a week. And then I

also work out my forums, but I don't think that makes me a whole lot more tired than usual. If I hadn't been doing them, but I know because I do all that working out, I do need to recover more than a normal person. I need more sleep than a normal person, but the amount of sleep that it seems like I need, I don't think is proportionate to how much I work out. Um, so what I'm trying to say is I haven't consistently improved my sleeping habits. Uh, then this is in terms of forming regular sleep patterns or sleeping more intensely. Um, what I mean by that is trying to optimize my sleep as much as possible. Um, so the same amount of sleep that I would get in 8 hours of poor sleep would be the same amount that I get in 6 hours of high-quality sleep. And overall, sleeping less is a goal. Um, but I have, over the almost past three years, greatly improved how I spend my waking hours. So, although I haven't done or seen a lot of progress on the

Sleep side of things, trying to decrease, you know, sleeping for one-third of my life. I have seen a gigantic increase in how effectively I spend, you know, the 16 hours or 15 or however so many hours I spend of that day awake. Um, so one of the things that I tried attempting was polyphasic sleep, and I've been trying this for pretty much the past maybe nine months, um, since I heard about it. U. What polyphasic sleep is sleeping in different chunks rather than in one large session, which is what most people will sleep in. It's called monophasic sleep, uh, when you sleep for about 8 hours or so or any time you sleep just once per day. Monophasic sleep is that what that is, whereas polyphasic sleep is where you, this is just an example, but if whenever you split up your sleep into multiple sessions, it could be what I do, which is called the everyman. I do a variant of the everyman where if you sleep for one large core, uh, which is about four to five.

hours, and then you have one or two other naps, uh, and mine are 45 minutes. So, I sleep for a core of 6 hours, and then I have two 45-minute naps, which, and all that's not really a reduced schedule, you would think. And I even struggle to maintain on this sleep schedule. A problem I have is I'm not often or always able to fall asleep for my 45-minute naps. What I do is I have a six-hour core at home during the day 'cause I work nights as a security guard, and then I have a 45-minute session at work, which is my meal break. Um, sometimes I'm able to fall asleep for that, but not always. And then what's even worse is the train ride home was supposed to be another four 45 minutes I spend sleeping, and I'm not always able to fall asleep for that either. It's not because, you know, the train is making noise or there's people on the train car making noise. It's just I feel tired.

but I'm not able to fall asleep. So um, this has been a big problem because then that sleep deprivation that I'm supposed to be getting sleep from those 45-minute sessions then rolls over into when I finally do fall asleep for my core six-hour nap. And then I end up oversleeping. And then instead of waking up at 2:15, which I'm supposed to, I wake up at like 5:15 p.m. And then this lack of discipline in this sleep area falls over into other areas um for example, and it starts affecting other areas of my life. For example, I'll sleep until 5:15 or later and then I won't have enough time to meal prep, which means I'll undereat for a couple of days because I wasn't able to get all my meals in. And if I'm supposed to eat 4,000 calories, I'll only eat 3,000 because I wasn't able to prepare all my meals. Another example is I'll oversleep and I

won't be able to hit all my workouts. Um, if I have to work, if I have to leave for work at um 9:15 at night, p.m. Then if I wake up at 5:00, I might not have enough time to do my other activities and get my workout in because it might take between, if depending on whether I hit my morning session workout. If I didn't, then that moves another hour over to the afternoon. So instead of having one hour session in the afternoon, I'll have one hour session plus another hour session from the morning plus my run that I was supposed to do in the morning as well. So a 1H hour workout in the afternoon will turn into a 2 and 1 half to three hour workout, which I just won't be able to do. Um, and then not being able to fall asleep on my sleep schedule will cause me to fall asleep, and I'm supposed to be studying at work. I have eight hours of work that I

get paid for. I spend 1 hour doing a patrol. I spend 45 minutes on my kneel break sleeping, and the rest of the time, the 6 hours and 15 minutes, I just sit at a desk at the end of a hallway, and nothing ever happens. So, I spend that time studying for the CPA exam. So, effectively, I'm taking what would be, um, eight hours and a separate 15 hours and combining them into a combined 5H hour session of studying, plus, uh, an hour, a little bit more than an hour of work, and then 4-5 minutes of an app, plus an hour and 15 minutes of whatever I want to do, and I'm getting paid for that entire session, um, which is why I chose a job as a security guard, because I knew I wouldn't have enough time to get a real job because I have to leave on this trip for a couple of months, um, but I knew it would be able to get, like, a low-level job like a security guard, and of all the all.

the low-level jobs that I could get in a couple of months. I knew security guard would be the best because I could work nights, um, and have a, you know, a nighttime, a nocturnal schedule like Batman. But that wasn't really a huge, um, factor into it, besides the fact that night jobs, such as a security guard job, are extremely chill. There's pretty much nothing that's going on, and for me, my job is extremely ideal. And I was able to pick this job out specifically so that I'm able to study and get effectively, essentially get paid to study for the CPA exam. Um, but being tired and not being able to fall asleep for those other times means I fall asleep when I'm supposed to be studying at work. And then even though I have 6 hours and 15 minutes to do my five hours of studying per day, I'm not always able to hit my five hours of studying, even though I have those 5 hours allotted to study, plus an additional hour and 15 minutes. So it's kind of ridiculous that I'm not

able to get my five hours of studying in. Um, so like I said before, I've gotten better at spending the time I'm awake more efficiently. For example, I mentioned before I listen to my audiobooks on my commute. So not only am I getting from point A to point B, I'm also listening to an audiobook that's making me smarter. It's making me more knowledgeable. Um, and I specifically pick all my books so that they play into my life somehow. Um, for example, I listen to Jordan Belford's book on sales, and I took, I listened to that because I need, I'm getting my real estate license, and although I'm getting it to represent myself as an investor, I might do a couple sales to outside people just so I have that experience. So that's why, and that's sales, so that's why I read that, the Jordan Belford's book on it. Um, and then the book I'm reading now, the, um, the book about Marl Lynch, I'm

reading about that because it's about finance. It's about the things that I'm learning, the accounting for my CPA degree. So, I specifically pick my books with a reason behind all of them. And then, not only am I listening to that audiobook, but I'm also using a forearm grip strengthener. So, I'm strengthening my grip as well. So, by doing all these things, I'm able to get three things done at once, whereas someone just commuting in their car would only be able to commute, whereas I'm able to commute plus do two extra addition things that are enriching my life, that are improving me. And then, another example is specifically picking a job as a security guard. You know, I'm able to make a little bit of money while also getting paid at the same time. So, it's like as if I'm taking that time, those two separate events, and the eight hours I have allotted for them and squishing them together, effectively turning 16 hours of work into 8 hours of

work that I'm still getting paid for, and uh, so those are just some examples of how I've improved my time management to be able to do things more efficiently. It's a multitask, but overall, my waking time could still be improved even more. U, like I said before, I feel like I've plateaued in the past month or so in my time management abilities, so uh, it's a little bit hard to explain, but I can see areas in which I could improve, but I'm having trouble actually improving them. Um, it's kind of like uh, I boxed a little bit in college, and when you're a new boxer, you don't really know what you're doing, but you need a coach to point out your mistakes. But once you get good enough at boxing, you can self-coach yourself to a point. Um, and you're able to throw punches and do combos or whatever and do a workout, and you're able to see where you messed up, where your mistakes

were, but as a beginner, you can't really tell at all where your mistakes were. So, because I'm experienced enough in time management and trying to improve my time management, I'm able to identify the areas in which I could be saving even more time. But, like I said, I'm having trouble because I plateaued. I'm having trouble actually fulfilling them. Um, so I can see that sleep is one of my biggest issues. Um, something else that I can identify but isn't as big as sleeping is, it's not as big as the time sync, is showering. Um, so I spend, I probably spend like 10 to 15 minutes showering when you could probably get the complete shower done in like four minutes. And then even before I get into the shower, I try and find something to listen to, like music or something, and I probably waste like three minutes doing that. Um, sometimes maybe even like five to eight minutes. And when you start time management, when you start trying to manage your time better, you think, Oh, oh well, it's only five minutes, why does

that matter, but it starts adding up over time. And as you get better at time management, you start thinking instead of in hours, you think of in chunks at 15 minutes. And then from 15 minutes, which is kind of where I'm at, then you start thinking in periods of five minutes, and then probably one minute, and then I don't know, I even I don't even know where it would go from there. I don't know if you go to two 10-second chunks or 1-second chunks, um, but you start seeing the value in smaller and smaller periods of time. Um, so when you think of a day in 24 hours, you don't think of it in 24 hours, you think of it in 96 15-minute periods. So when I look at the clock and I have something to do in 15 minutes, and I'm onto that 15-minute way of thinking, I I'll I'll think to myself, Oh, I have 15 minutes. I I have enough time to get a major task done.

because I have 15 minutes. But someone who thinks in terms of 24 hours in a day will say, Oh, I only have 1/4th of an hour, so I don't have enough time to start a major task, so I'm just going to wait until these 15 minutes pass, and then I can start a major task. Um, so I'm on that 15-minute period section now, way the way of thinking, and so I'm trying to look for periods of 15 minutes or around that amount of time that I can fix. And then, like I said, looking for something to listen to while I'm in the shower, an easy fix to that is just to listen to the audiobook that I'm currently listening to, because I should always have an audiobook that I'm currently listening to. Um, and then another thing I need to improve is my eating time. So, um, I'm trying to cut down on the time I spend eating, and there's some ways I can do this. One way is through drinking liquid calories.

because I don't even need to stop working to be able to consume my calories. For example, I use hu a lot. I was going to hold off the bottle, but it's over there. But I personally use the Black hule Edition. It's a meal replacement. I like the chocolate and the strawberry shortcake flavors. But it's an easy way for me to get 400 calories in. If I stop and drink it, it'll take me maybe two minutes. But if I'm drinking it while studying or doing whatever, I don't even need to stop studying. If I'm listening to a video while I'm studying, I can just listen to the video and chug it down. I don't even need to stop. But usually, I take about, because I timed it, I take about 35ish minutes for a meal. And because I'm bulking, because I work out a lot, I'm trying to get, I'm 190 something. I'm trying to get to Batman is 220. My end goal is to get

to 225, but for now, my next goal is to get back up to 200 because I used to sit at 200. I lost a little bit of weight, but since I'm bulking, I need to eat a lot of food. I probably eat five to six times a day in large meals, ideally. So, if you think of five times 35 minutes, you know, that's almost a little bit under two hours. That's a lot of time. That's what, one-twelfth of the day? So, two hours is a lot of time to be just eating. So, you want to cut that down as much as possible, at least I want to. But if I'm spending 35 minutes on just eating a meal, and I'm doing that multiple times a day, I need to figure out a way to cut down on that. But the issue here is I usually listen to something or like I watch a movie or something while I'm doing this, or part of a movie while I'm doing it at

least while I'm at home, so I need to figure out the sweet spot between where I'm spending enough time where I'm enjoying myself, because I'm just like anybody else. I can't really study for five hours straight without having a break or something to like get a dopamine fix by watching a movie or doing something fun. So, I try and combine the two and watch and get that, you know, break, that relaxation of watching a movie or TV show while I'm eating. Um, but I don't want it to spend 35 minutes, maybe U 20 minutes or 25 minutes. I'm trying to find a sweet spot between enough break where it's enough of a break that I can eat and also, you know, watch something that'll bring me some sort of relaxation. So, when I jump back into studying again, it's not like I just did it, had just five minutes off or 10 minutes off that I had to Stu my face for. So, I'm trying to find a good balance between enjoyment but also being

able to get my food in so I can bulk, and then being able to get back to work immediately after so I don't waste, you know, a large amount of time. Something that I forgot to mention earlier was tracking my time. So, from what I've calculated, I have about four hours missing that I miss every single day that I've misplaced, and I'm trying to figure out where it goes. So, if I spend eight hours working, and that's what I mentioned before, where I have five hours of studying, plus 45 minutes of sleeping, plus an hour of actual work, I should have an hour and 15 minutes for you to do whatever, but this calculation just discards that because that's work I have, that's T stuff I have to do at work, and I'm kind of restricted by stuff I can do at work, whereas I'm much more unrestricted by this time. So, eight hours of work just encompasses all of that. I spent about two to two and a half hours on the train.

every day commuting. I spend about. I'm supposed to spend six hours sleeping. Um, I spend roughly about one hour running a day. I spend one hour working out, spend an hour and a half eating, hopefully it's probably more than that. And then if you add that all up, I have four hours missing again. That could be because all these times I have written down on here, these tasks, they actually take more time than I think, which means I need to track my time more efficiently and more specifically, or as specific and focus as possible, so I can try and figure out where all that time is disappearing to. Um, I think some of it's definitely disappearing. I to sleep. There's, I, you know, I'm very irregular in my sleep patterns, even though I try and only take a six-hour core at home. It probably is more than that, and I need to figure that out and how to sleep better. And then I probably spend more than an hour and 30 minutes every day eating, which I need to cut down on.

like I said before, maybe 20 minutes per every meal would be a good sweet spot. So, I have, you know, 20 minutes to eat while also watching a movie or a TV show or something where it's, where it's, I can enjoy myself. So, I have some time that I can jump back into studying and not feel like I just stopped studying. Um, but with all these times are correct, even, even if they're not correct, and I'm missing and all those things, still take another hour. I'm still missing three hours in my day, plus that hour and 15 minutes at work where that always goes missing. Um, you know, probably from me falling asleep and stuff. So, uh, for what I plan to do the next couple days is really focus on my Google Calendar and try and figure out where my time is going and on a piece of pap logging what I'm doing exactly at each time. So, for before I made this video, um, I track the time I spent making the thumbnail and then I'll also as soon

as I finish recording this and uploading it, I'll also record how long it took me to prepare, you know, everything to make the video and everything like that. And I want to figure out where my time is disappearing to and then start tracking it because, uh, once you start tracking something, you improve a lot at it. For example, if you start tracking your calories really well, then you often, you know, start hitting your calories more often. So, example, if you're trying to lose weight, then you'll hit that number to lose weight. Or if you're trying to gain weight, you'll start getting that number to gain weight. Um, or if you start tracking your reps at the gym, um, you'll start improving your reps, you'll get more reps just through the simple act of tracking it. So then the next time you come to the gym, you say, you think, Oh, I hit 15 reps on this next time. Now that I know that, I can know to push myself past that 50 gram mark and that struggle and hit try.

and hit 16, so I improve this week. So that's pretty much it for this week. There wasn't a whole lot of updates to current projects. This was more a video on general time management because although I've been pushing out updates every single week for the past 20 weeks, the past maybe four to three weeks, I've been really struggling with time management. And I think those are the weeks that I've been. I think I've probably been studying this entire time, but the reason I think I'm struggling a lot more now is because I've plateaued enough to the point where I recognize, like, in the boxing example from before, the metaphor from before. I can see the areas where I can improve. I'm just having trouble implementing it, whereas before, before these four weeks, I could see where I was missing these pockets of time that I was missing, and I was able to scoop them back up. I was able to increase my time management at the same rate I was identifying these issues, but now my ability to edit the issues is falling.

behind or is increasing, whereas my ability to fulfill these issues isn't, is lacking behind. So, I hope that makes sense. So, thank you for watching, and I'll see you next week with another update video.

Becoming BRUCE WAYNE / BATMAN In Real Life - Week 20 [PROJECT WAYNE]

Project Wayne

Week 20 of Project Wayne: Becoming a Polymath

The project aims to emulate Bruce Wayne's polymathic skills, excelling in various areas like athletics and business.

Current pursuits include breaking the world record for pull-ups, obtaining a CPA certification, and training for a marathon.

The video will provide updates on these projects and discuss time management challenges and solutions.

Balancing CPA Exam, Real Estate, and Marathon Training

The speaker has been approved to sit for the CPA exam and is trying to complete it before a business trip that will last 4.

They are also pursuing a real estate license to build passive wealth and transition into "Batman-esque" activities, like stuntman school, in the future.

Additionally, they are training for a marathon, aiming to improve their time, and are using audiobooks to maximize productivity during workouts.

Time Management and the Quest for Efficiency

The speaker is halfway through a 17-hour audiobook, using their daily commute to work as the main time for listening.

They are working on a personal project, inspired by Bruce Wayne, to improve their time management skills and become a polymath.

Despite making progress over two years, the speaker struggles with sleep and waking up on time, which they identify as their biggest obstacle to effective time management.

Struggles with Sleep and Its Impact on Daily Life

The speaker's intense workout routine leads to a greater need for sleep, but they struggle to improve their sleeping habits.

They have been trying polyphasic sleep for nine months, splitting their sleep into a core of six hours and two 45-minute naps, but often have difficulty falling asleep.

This sleep deprivation and oversleeping disrupt their daily activities, leading to missed meals, workouts, and insufficient time for other important tasks.

Efficient Time Management as a Security Guard

The speaker's security guard job allows for a unique schedule, combining work and study time effectively.

They use their shifts to study for the CPA exam, listen to audiobooks, and engage in other productive activities.

Despite the ideal setup, they struggle to consistently achieve their study goals, but are actively working on improving their time management skills.

The speaker is experienced in time management but has plateaued in making further improvements.

They identify sleep and showering as time-consuming activities, with showering taking longer than necessary.

The speaker is now focusing on optimizing 15-minute periods for tasks and is using liquid calories for meals to save time.

The goal is to regain weight by bulking, which involves eating five to six large meals a day, totaling almost two hours.

The challenge is finding a balance between enjoying meals while watching movies and minimizing eating time.

There's a discrepancy of four missing hours in the daily schedule, leading to the need for more efficient time tracking and better sleep management.

The speaker plans to spend 20 minutes per meal while also enjoying leisure activities, but is struggling to track and manage their time effectively.

They intend to use Google Calendar and a log to identify where their time is disappearing and believe that tracking activities will lead to improvement.

Despite previous success in time management, they are currently facing challenges in implementing changes and fulfilling their goals.