I'll add my voice here to those who don't drink caffeine. It's not that I have specifically avoided it, but I never picked up the habit, and I've never found a particular benefit when I have tried it.
In my opinion, the idea that more work is better work is one of the great misconceptions of modern, Western culture (it's not a universal one, I know, but it certainly applies in a lot of places). If caffeine would allow me to do some not insignificant but not enormous amount more, but otherwise makes my life less pleasant through reliance on it, withdrawal symptoms, lack of sleep and cost, then I'm not terribly inclined to bother.
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I'll add my voice here to those who don't drink caffeine. It's not that I have specifically avoided it, but I never picked up the habit, and I've never found a particular benefit when I have tried it.
In my opinion, the idea that more work is better work is one of the great misconceptions of modern, Western culture (it's not a universal one, I know, but it certainly applies in a lot of places). If caffeine would allow me to do some not insignificant but not enormous amount more, but otherwise makes my life less pleasant through reliance on it, withdrawal symptoms, lack of sleep and cost, then I'm not terribly inclined to bother.