Posted on 12/07/2022 2:32:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
If the idea of waking up at 5am for productivity makes you want to roll over and hit snooze until Saturday, don’t fret, says HR expert Adrian Tan.
When the circuit breaker was tripped in 2020, my kids were doing home-based learning every day.
Because I had to provide on-site tech support to three demanding users throughout the day, I couldn’t begin any serious work until late in the afternoon. I thought rising early to avoid that distraction could be the productivity hack I needed.
Inspired by retired US Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink's – who posts daily photos of his watch at 4.30am before his morning workout – I roused at 4.30am, had a quick shower, then went for a morning run. All this before the sun had risen.
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I imagine most people can adjust to whatever time fits their needs (jobs), although it takes awhile. I seem to recall studies of folks in those “habitat” facilities where they couldn’t tell what time it was or see the sun. Some interesting stuff came out of it - but I can’t remember now!
My cat, Bandit, say’s 6am is a great time to get up so I can feed her soft food and who am I to argue with my cat.
Depends on your co-workers and if you are in a big business with offices on the east coast and west coast.
If in the east...yes waking up early will allow you to get a start on things before your day gets randomized by other people. That is as long as everyone else isn’t working at 5am.
On the West Coast staying later will be better. The east coast is already up generating work for the west. So if you stay later you can optimize your time without others disturbing you.
On my days off, I’m up at four.
Even while on vacation, I’m up at four.
Of course, I got to bed between 7 and 8 pm. I once stayed up till near ten. I don’t know what I was thinking. But I was up at four the next morning.
Reminds me of the joke about the guy in bed with his wife.
He gives her a little nudge and says “Hey - ya want to get frisky?”
“No - I’m tired.”
Same thing the next night.
The third night she says “I’m tired - why don’t you watch a game on TV or something?”
“A game!? You really don’t know anything about sports. There’s nothing on at 4 am.”
There is no such person. HR is for losers that can’t get a job where they say, “Do you want fries with that?”
There are at least six different chronotypes in humans:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886920305444
Most people are not morning people.
Some people peak around noon, others in the evening.
It seems best to order your work around when you work best.
After all what would you do without night people if you found yourself in the emergency room at midnight?
What if all police were early to bed, early to rise? Who would stop criminals at 1:00 am?
I’ve been retired for over two years, and I still wake up between 3 and 4 every morning. When I was still working, my alarm was set for 4:30 but I was always awake before then.
Sometimes now I’ll read in bed for an hour or so and then sleep a bit more, but at least as often I’ll just get up.
In my 20s, I preferred to stay up until 3:00 or later, then sleep past 10:00. I liked evening shift then.
Me, too. Reading mostly.
“I once stayed up till near ten. I don’t know what I was thinking.”
Lol, yeah my bedtime is about 9 at the latest. I can’t sleep more than six hours a day.
I get up most mornings at 5am but I am not a morning person. I feel sleepy the rest of the day, forcing myself to do what I need to do and can’t get back to sleep in the morning anyway.
I go to bed about 10pm most nights some 9pm. But there are mornings where I sleep in, the dog next door has not barked and awoken me and on the days I sleep in I get lots more done because I have the stamina. On those days I still get sleepy around 10, sometimes I make it up to midnight. If I get a lot of days where I sleep in then I start to stay up later and those are the days where I am not dragging all day long.
But regardless of the time I get up I still do all the things I have to do. On the days where I get up later I do all those things and additional things I have the energy for.
Mandatory, in the Military unless you’re in the field or deployed then sleep is forbidden. That’s how soldiers can sleep anywhere for minutes at a time.
Yes that is when I jump on the net. The night crew mods here at the FR can vouch for it. Probably mad at me for interrupting their nap when they are supposed to be on watch. lol
I’m up at 5am. My cats require it. Actually, it was the routine when I was working as I had to be at work at 7am. But kitties are creatures of habit & they see no reason I should change things, even though I’m retired now.
I’m retired but after 38yrs of getting up between 4:30 and 5:30 for military, DoD employment requirements I’m still up by 06:30... I enjoy the sunrise.
But the second mouse gets the cheese ;-)
“I seem to recall studies of folks in those “habitat” facilities where they couldn’t tell what time it was or see the sun. Some interesting stuff came out of it.”
My wife was just in the ICU for two weeks. And there is a thing called ICU Psychosis which does that. The last three days she was indeed losing her mind. Still after being out five days later she is having issues at night while trying to sleep. Crazy livid dreams, people talking to her who are not there when she is awake, Etc.
https://www.medicinenet.com/icu_psychosis/article.htm
i’m up....mannix, barnaby...and then the westerns
same here...i’m 78...but i do take a cat nap....which is getting purrrrrrty long lately.
Reminds me of the John Wayne movie “the Cowboys”.
“Up and at em! We’re burning daylight!”
And it was still dark...
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