You can appreciate another person’s ability without borrowing their schedule.

Admiration has a habit of turning into imitation, and the part easiest to copy is the timetable. You hear that someone writes at five in the morning or trains six days a week, and you take the schedule home as though it were the talent. What made it work includes their body, their obligations and their household, none of which came with the anecdote.

Name what you actually admire in the person, in plain words. Then ask what version of that fits the life you already have. Build the smallest version that keeps what you admire and drops the borrowed hours.