Because everyone else gets your day first. Clients, your team and the tasks you put off fill your calendar, and none of it leaves a slot that answers only to you. At 10 p.m. the phone goes quiet, and that quiet feels like freedom.
There is a name for this: revenge bedtime procrastination. You know you need the rest. You stay up anyway, because going to bed would end the only stretch of the day that you alone decide.
Take a normal day. You push the quote you dread from 9 a.m. to the afternoon, fill the gap with email and calls, and finish the quote at 8 p.m. The work got done. Your own time didn't. So you collect it on your phone until 1 a.m.
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