PEAK PERFORMANCE

Note: This book will not teach you to wake up at 4 AM. It will not give you a morning routine, an evening routine, or a routine for your routines. If that's what you're looking for, there are 6,000 other titles in that section. This one does something different.

About this book

Every year, hundreds of books are published about optimizing your morning. Not one of them has been written about the only thing you actually do every morning - without fail, without motivation, without setting an alarm for it.

Peak Performance is that book. Nineteen chapters. Three complete taxonomies. One analytical index. One glossary. More than two hundred real scientific citations, each treated with exactly the level of seriousness it deserves - which is: considerable.

This is not a book about productivity. It is a book about the things productivity books skip. It is peer-reviewed. It is footnoted. It contains the word "urobilin" used correctly in a sentence.

What's inside

• The world record for sustained urination: 508 seconds. Someone was there with a stopwatch. It's in Guinness.
• The neuroscience of why your morning pee feels like a small victory. (Nucleus accumbens. Dopamine. It's real.)
• A complete fart taxonomy: The Whisper, The Sniper, The Ghost, The Conspiracy, The Method Actor. All defined. All sourced.
• Paul Hunn, 112.4 decibels, the loudest burp ever recorded. There is video evidence.
• Why Martin Luther almost certainly had his Reformation breakthrough on the toilet. Primary sources cited.
• NASA's JSC-48075: the 8-page manual on defecation in microgravity. Published. Available online. Your taxes paid for it.
• The Bristol Stool Scale, explained for people who will actually use the information.
• The Standing Ovation. You'll know it when it happens. This book will help you recognize it.

Editorial note

"We recognize this is not a conventional self-help book. We also recognize that conventional self-help books have a 94% abandonment rate before chapter three. This one has been read, in full, in a single sitting, by people who would not like to admit where they were sitting."