My day starts at three...
Jocko Willink is borderline insane, and scary.
I have zero desire to be a workaholic like many.
Addiction to stress is real, and ends with an early grave typically.
It matters significantly on what one’s job is, but so many hours are BS in many positions.
Teams meetings about future Teams meetings.
HR nonsense.
Diversity nonsense.
etc.
If not interrupted with said BS, I could do my job with 4 - 5 hour shifts.
An aside - I hate the saying “life hack” and I want all TED talk people to die...
I’m up at 5am so I can get a shower, breakfast, brush my teeth, pack my lunch, and get to my first stop by 7am. And I don’t kids to make sure get to school.
It’s a GREAT nights sleep when I can sleep as late as 5:00AM.
5am is a good time for reps.
My wife and I are evening people. She was getting a hard time from some friends when she said how she had to get up “early” at 8 am.
Coming to her defense “Well - she was at the elderly neighbor’s until 1:15 am helping him with his oxygen, and 12:30 the night before that.”
I can’t sleep past five no matter when I go to bed.
Uncle Sam’s boys club did that to me.
5.56mm
“Dawn, when men of reason go to bed.”
Ambrose Pierce
At my age it’s a fact of life.
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.
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 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.
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.
i’m up....mannix, barnaby...and then the westerns
Reminds me of the John Wayne movie “the Cowboys”.
“Up and at em! We’re burning daylight!”
And it was still dark...