You would have done better just to leave the well-squeezed orange alone. The upshot: you need to work hard (say, about 50 hours a week), but beyond that you reap no real performance benefit from ...

“What limits our accomplishments is our ability to recover—how well we can bounce back from hard work and be ready to ... at themselves for being too tired to perform at their best.

I’m the breadwinner right now and, honestly, I’m just tired. I work way too hard, and I’m really stressed. Life is hard, and I genuinely feel like I can’t catch a break. Any advice?