You think your productivity breaks when you get tired.
It actually breaks long before that.

Your voltage tanks the moment you make one invisible decision:
you choose input before intention.

It sounds harmless.
It feels normal.
But it’s the switch that kills 60% of your available cognitive power before you’ve done a single meaningful thing.

And most people don’t even know they’re doing it.

Here’s how it works:

You wake up, and instead of setting direction, you check something.
Messages. Stats. Notifications. A feed.
Something external. Something reactive.

That tiny decision tilts your mental frame from creator to responder, and from that point forward, you’re operating from a deficit.

You’re no longer thinking in straight lines.
You’re chasing noise, trying to “catch up,” even if nothing urgent is happening.

Most people stop here. Here’s what to do instead: