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  Hi everyone, Malu speaking. I'm the author of Life's Notebook. Welcome to the Elevation Grid. I speak about career, science, and well-being. Okay, enough. Let's talk. Yeah, how do you structure your day, your work day? I'm not very good at structuring my work days. I have trouble getting up in the morning. And that's why I'm not a plastic surgeon, actually, because I had to get up too early. But I'm up late at night, so everyone listen to me, a future boss, please know that I achieve my objectives nevertheless. But... But so when I get up, I need to have a clean desk. That's very important. And then I look at my priorities. And I always remember a sentence of Peter Drucker, which is, there's nothing as useless as doing efficiently what should not be done at all. So that's the first thing I'm thinking. So I set my priorities for the day and if I can delegate something to somebody, I definitely will. If I can do shortcuts, I will do too. I essentially look at what is urgent, what is time sensitive and the rest I let go for another day. There's another day which will come up and I might have more ideas. And sometimes I have also learned that sometimes problems resolve spontaneously. So where I have a big problem today, maybe tomorrow it's gone. It's rare, but it happens. So why not take the opportunity? Winston Churchill. Yeah, I learned from him. Actually, he smokes a cigar. I don't smoke cigar. But what I learned from him is that he works in his bed and he doesn't get, yeah, and I work, I have right in my bed, I have to say. I'm very comfortably installed and this is my office, actually. And Winston Churchill did the same and we get up in the afternoon and then we have dinner at night. But that's our similarities. And he liked champagne. That's also something I do like as a French person, half French, half American.