The 5 Am Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.

The three are still standing on the Spanish Steps when three women pull up in scooters. Mr. Riley directs the artist and the entrepreneur to each hop on one of the scooters, and they follow him out past the city limits to an out-of-the-way location. There, they get off the scooters and follow Riley into the catacombs. As they are down there in the dark, a shadowy figure emerges. After an initial fright, the three discover that the mysterious person is the Spellbinder himself. As the group makes small talk, Mr. Riley notices the entrepreneur is wearing an engagement ring given to her by the artist. After congratulating the couple, Mr. Riley offers to host their celebration at his compound, and then he once again begins to heave and cough. The Spellbinder quickly changes the focus away from Riley’s coughing fit and leans into the lesson for the day, which he summarizes by stating, “What makes genius-level performance is a delicate balance between the mastery of your morning routine and the optimization of your nightly ritual” (229). He discusses the biochemical benefits of sleep, including a process he refers to as a kind of brain cleansing and an increase in human growth hormone that humans benefit from while sleeping.