Why morning people rule the world

London Evening Standard ^ | 7/5/10 | Philip Delves Broughton

[goseminoles]

I hate morning people with their chipper attitudes and conversation around the coffee machine. Screw them. Good night.

[Huntress]

I used to be in business with a couple of guys who were convinced of their superiority as morning people. They would chide me for not being in the office by 8 a.m., but they didn’t see any problem with leaving every day at 2 p.m. to play golf. I was putting in more hours than they were, so I told them to spare me the lectures. I’m not in business with them any more.

[Red_Devil 232]

I am a very early morning person. Two dogs.

[dodger]

Will save to read much after midnight ...

[Perdogg]

I guess architects will never rule the world.

[BenLurkin]

[Stultis]

Time was we night people could, under cover of darkness, hatch monstrous conspiracies against the hated day drones.

But now, before the plot can near fruition, some loose-lips is bound to spout off on his facebook page.

Damn you internet. Damn you to hell!

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I hate morning people with their chipper attitudes and conversation around the coffee machine. Screw them. Good night.

I grew up in a family of morning people. I never knew that other people might not be so chipper in the morning until I went to college. I used to meet my friends in the dining room of our dorm early in the morning for breakfast and I would start right in with my chatting and laughing. They used to tell me to STOP and I honestly thought they were joking. I had no idea that I was bothering them because I didn't know that some people don't function in the morning. To me, once you're awake, you're alert. I don't think I really ever realized that I really was bothering them until years later when I learned about "morning people" and "evening people."

[skr]

Dogs/cats = morning-people makers!

[BenLurkin]

[BuckeyeTexan]

I have always been a night owl. My most productive, most creative time to work is from 7:00PM - 2:00AM. When I worked for an IT shop, I was usually up working late, coming in late (9/10 AM), and going home late. I got so much work accomplished between 4:00PM and 7:00PM.

[stansblugrassgrl]

I’ve always been a night person, but trained myself to be an morning person. As long as no one speaks to me before 10:00 am or so, every thing is fine. However, it only takes one all-nighter to put me right back on night person status.

Come to think of it, night people aren’t even noted in the article.

[Cacique]

It’s always morning somewhere in the world.

[ElayneJ]

I love being up early in the morning...not enough to ever actually do it though.

[Yardstick]

Yeah, that’s kind of my deal too. I’m definitely a vampire but my job forces me to be a morning person. But I very easily slip back into my nocturnal rhythm. Even over the course of a three day weekend, like this weekend, I will drift back and then have to readjust. Like I’ll probably be up until 1 or 2am tonight and will regret it tomorrow morning.

[GOP Poet]

lol. I hear ya. I’m a nighter too. not going to say a thing about birds and worms. :-). lots of wormies at night.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Nope, I’m a night person and don’t like to talk in the morning, and usually if I attempt to do anything productive before noon, odds are I will have to re-do it.

[goat granny]

Always been a night person. Afternoon shifts at the hospital were great for me...but sometimes wish I was a morning person. The sun much look great....I even cut the grass after the sun goes down....just quit trying to be what I am not and have made peace with myself.....No one calls me before 1pm. Morning phone calls are not answered, just deleted when I get up....

I think its genetic. a couple of my son's are night owls and so was my mother and one of my sisters....But I am retired and can now afford to sleep when I feel like it...

[The Cajun]

Did a lot of night work, mostly to repair the damage "Morning People" did.
Anybody getting up at 5:00 AM all chipper and anxiously awaiting what challenges the day may bring need to be watched very closely because that just ain't right ;^)