Beware to advice of burning the candle at both ends. Why does it spread?

Do you want to be another cog?

There is plenty of bad amateur advice, the self-help industrial complex will churn it out all in attempt to make a short-head of distribution, just churn out advice. Regardless of contradiction.

Any Guru or couch worth their salt will at least be consistent in one thing, on not burning the candle at both ends. Anybody who advises it within one of their podcasts or videos one ignoring sleep as a good course of action are either:

• Competitive in status, they won't take responsibility, like an industrialist. It's taken across their brains in a lapse of judgements. Treating students as disposable products.
• They don't care about your mental health, hypocrites because the moment they apply their physically impossible sleep schedules, they'd complain to high hills. Set boundaries against burning the candle at both ends. Survivorship bias runs rampant with this advice.
• Because sex sells, in the worst way. I mean it.

You can happily ignore this advice is it does not respect your mental/physical health, even take a break from it, and even fire bad teachers/bosses if it gets too much.

So, don't follow it. If you want help, get the basics down first. You could be the world's worst teacher, coach and boss. Be it your responsibility to not take their advice seriously, and even fire them if it's making your life miserable.

So beware of burning the candle at both ends.