<story><title>Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don&apos;t get enough sleep: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/american-kids-arent-getting-enough-sleep-its-affecting-their-success-school-scientists-warn-1466882</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>&amp;gt;We wake up students too early&lt;p&gt;I agree, but... you were staying up until 1-2am playing video games. C&amp;#x27;mon.</text></item><item><author>MperorM</author><text>Lack of sleep was definitely the cause of my terrible grades in highschool mathematics. I would stay up late (1-2 am) to play in starcraft tournaments, to have 8 am classes in mathematics. (There&amp;#x27;s a neat inverse correlation between my highschool grades and starcraft rank)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me just how terrible school systems are at optimizing for learning. I would get terrible headaches from classrooms that had too many people and too little fresh air. I thought it was just me dreading my lessons, but in reality it was from co2 ppm reaching levels that humans can&amp;#x27;t properly function in.&lt;p&gt;We wake up students too early, put them in rooms that kill cognitive performance and then have the audacity to complain when they can&amp;#x27;t follow along!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zeta0134</author><text>I also stayed up until 1-2am, regularly, starting around junior high. I performed a great many tasks, mostly teaching myself various programming languages, always at the relative expense of my concentration in the next day&amp;#x27;s classes. Two things were the primary motivating factors in developing this habit:&lt;p&gt;- My parents wouldn&amp;#x27;t leave me alone for very long in the evenings, so I felt like I wouldn&amp;#x27;t get a chance to really concentrate until they were off to bed
- My brain gets tired around 10pm like a normal person, but then it gets a &amp;quot;second wind&amp;quot; and is up happily until 3-4am, with intensely increased clarity of focus.&lt;p&gt;The first trait was obviously correctable and probably circumstantial, but the second feels far more innate. I just focus better right after the sun goes down, and I&amp;#x27;m not really sure why. It&amp;#x27;s like all the stress from the day melts away, and I get a chance to finally be myself for a few hours. So, I work an evening shift (my work day starts at noon and gets out quite late) and I couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier for it.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a shame that this combination is both common, and regarded as &lt;i&gt;lazy&lt;/i&gt; by society at large, because it seems to be quite the opposite. I get my best work done in the evenings, and so do lots of other people. I wish that we were generally more accepting of these traits, because if I hadn&amp;#x27;t had the good fortune to stumble into a job with such a well-aligned shift, I would still be struggling to sleep properly most nights.</text></comment>
<story><title>Around 30 percent of children in the U.S. don&apos;t get enough sleep: study</title><url>https://www.newsweek.com/american-kids-arent-getting-enough-sleep-its-affecting-their-success-school-scientists-warn-1466882</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>EpicEng</author><text>&amp;gt;We wake up students too early&lt;p&gt;I agree, but... you were staying up until 1-2am playing video games. C&amp;#x27;mon.</text></item><item><author>MperorM</author><text>Lack of sleep was definitely the cause of my terrible grades in highschool mathematics. I would stay up late (1-2 am) to play in starcraft tournaments, to have 8 am classes in mathematics. (There&amp;#x27;s a neat inverse correlation between my highschool grades and starcraft rank)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s crazy to me just how terrible school systems are at optimizing for learning. I would get terrible headaches from classrooms that had too many people and too little fresh air. I thought it was just me dreading my lessons, but in reality it was from co2 ppm reaching levels that humans can&amp;#x27;t properly function in.&lt;p&gt;We wake up students too early, put them in rooms that kill cognitive performance and then have the audacity to complain when they can&amp;#x27;t follow along!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>barry-cotter</author><text>I stayed up til the same time reading books for the same reason OP stayed up, not being tired. Teenagers have a delayed sleep cycle compared to adults, it’s not a matter of choice, it’s when your body says to wake up or sleep autonomously, same as my baby wakes at 5am and sleeps at 8pm, because that’s what his body is telling him to do.</text></comment>