<story><title>What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of-a-slow-morning-11546958541</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m unemployable just because of this. I cannot &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t read TFA, but wanted to note that there&amp;#x27;s an interesting statistic in the book &lt;i&gt;Why We Sleep&lt;/i&gt;: Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be &amp;quot;night owls&amp;quot; and 20% early risers. The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning.&lt;p&gt;For the natural night owls (I am one) the power of a slow morning is just the way we roll. I am so much more productive at 9pm than 9am, and have reworked my daily schedule accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jen729w</author><text>Okay so hear me out here. You can change. It’s not hard.&lt;p&gt;I am the owliest of owls. All my life, I’ve been up till 2am and struggled to get out of bed, snooze the alarm, last minute, dash through the shower, hurry to work, no time to think, sit down guiltily at 9:01am. I hated that morning rush but whatever, “that’s just who I am”.&lt;p&gt;Now, I’m 42, so maybe age makes this easier. But my girlfriend is an early riser, and she sometimes gets up at 5am. FIVE A.M. What? Mental.&lt;p&gt;Except when you do it a bunch of days in a row, and you see the benefits. You know who else is up at 5am? Nobody, because they’re not idiots. So it’s an &lt;i&gt;amazing&lt;/i&gt; time of day. It’s calm, it’s peaceful. Nobody bothers you.&lt;p&gt;The best part by far is right about now. It’s 9:30am here in Australia and I’ve been up for 3.5 hours already (only did 6am this morning). It feels like midday, yet I have the whole day left. It’s amazing.&lt;p&gt;The trade-off? You have to go to bed early, of course. But when you do this regularly, your body just sorts that out for you. You &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; be tired at 9pm. Just you try not to be, buddy. No amount of telling yourself that you’re an owl will change that. And, help yourself. Put the screen away, read a book, you know all of this.&lt;p&gt;Also, help yourself in the morning. My advice: don’t be a hero. Don’t try and get up and run a marathon. Just get up and put the kettle on. Slouch downstairs. Rub your eyes. It’s okay to be sleepy, it’s 5am and probably dark [0]. Have a cup of tea and a slice of toast. Read HN or Twitter or the paper or a book or whatever. DON’T BE A HERO.&lt;p&gt;Now, it’s 5:45am, maybe 6am. Seriously, don’t rush. But now it’s 6am and you are thoroughly awake and you are ready to go.&lt;p&gt;Enjoy the day. Just try not to be too smug about it, us morning people can be a bit like that. :-)&lt;p&gt;[0]: Added bonus. You get to see sunrise!</text></comment>
<story><title>What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of-a-slow-morning-11546958541</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hexo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m unemployable just because of this. I cannot &amp;quot;work&amp;quot; in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.</text></item><item><author>ilamont</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t read TFA, but wanted to note that there&amp;#x27;s an interesting statistic in the book &lt;i&gt;Why We Sleep&lt;/i&gt;: Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be &amp;quot;night owls&amp;quot; and 20% early risers. The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning.&lt;p&gt;For the natural night owls (I am one) the power of a slow morning is just the way we roll. I am so much more productive at 9pm than 9am, and have reworked my daily schedule accordingly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Darkphibre</author><text>Have you considered telecommuting? There&amp;#x27;s got to be a time-zone that may provide optimal alignment with your sleep patterns.</text></comment>