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What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by jimmaswell »

emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

I'm really glad my workplace has a gym in it. I use it during lunch hour daily and it works out great.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by hongshizi »

mtalantikite wrote: post #19

I've been doing this for years now and it's hard to imagine the old days when I used to wake up, shower, and run into work. At first it started with just waking up, making coffee with my aeropress, and sitting down to read a novel for up to an hour. The past 2.5+ years have been: wake up, stretch and pranayama for 20 minutes, meditate for 30 minutes, make tea/coffee, write for 30-40 minutes, shower and then off to wo…

Out of curiosity, what do you differently during your 30 minute meditation than during the pranayama?

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by irrational »

jimmaswell wrote: post #31
emiranda wrote: post #25

I've been waking up at 5am for the past 5 months so I can head to the gym (my first telecom meeting starts at 7am). Because no one is ever going to bother me between 5am and 7am, I've been able to consistently got to the gym at least 3x per week (trying to bump it up to 5x per week for the new year). I started doing this because it was very difficult for me to consistently go to the gym after work. Things come up, I…

I'm really glad my workplace has a gym in it. I use it during lunch hour daily and it works out great.

Same here. Being able to go for a swim, lift weights, using the climbing wall, etc. when stuck on a problem is great.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by andremendes »

bduerst wrote: post #8
kareemm wrote: post #6

Is it just me or is this article also paywalled for you when you click web => WSJ article? If so, is there another way to read it other than paying for a subscription? I don't read the WSJ often enough to justify subscribing.

WSJ removed Google users' access to articles, so the web link doesn't work for them anymore. Now the only way to view a WSJ article for free is if you're referred through Facebook, I believe.

I've just tried accessing through fb-referred link and got the same paywalled view.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by feenix566 »

mikeg8 wrote: post #26
travisjungroth wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard repeatedly if you have some side project you really care about, do it before work, not after.

Same here. I believe this is due to will power depletion (plenty of studies conclude that will power is finite resource) and after our normal 9-5 drains away our will power, people have a heard time being self-motivated - very true for me at least.

Yeah, and if you use your will power before work, you run out of it earlier in the work day and you get less done at work.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by dymk »

airstrike wrote: post #13
kareemm wrote: post #6

Is it just me or is this article also paywalled for you when you click web => WSJ article? If so, is there another way to read it other than paying for a subscription? I don't read the WSJ often enough to justify subscribing.

Just replace "wsj.com" with "fullwsj.com" https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/whats-the-rush-the-power-of...

This does the FB redirect trick but still forwards to the partial WSJ article.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by frickinLasers »

ebiester wrote: post #27
kareemm wrote: post #6

Is it just me or is this article also paywalled for you when you click web => WSJ article? If so, is there another way to read it other than paying for a subscription? I don't read the WSJ often enough to justify subscribing.

If you're willing to pay a small fee, you can sign up for blendle, and WSJ articles are 50 cents a piece through them.

This is great. Why haven't I heard of Blendle before?

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by jriot »

feenix566 wrote: post #35
mikeg8 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here. I believe this is due to will power depletion (plenty of studies conclude that will power is finite resource) and after our normal 9-5 drains away our will power, people have a heard time being self-motivated - very true for me at least.

Yeah, and if you use your will power before work, you run out of it earlier in the work day and you get less done at work.

Give more of my will power to myself or to someone else? Seems to be an easy answer.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by rch »

mcqueenjordan wrote: post #30

If it works for Jeff Bezos, it's probably good enough for me. > He wakes up every morning naturally, without the aid of an alarm clock. > "I like to putter in the morning," Bezos told a gathering of Economic Club of Washington, DC. "So I like to read the newspaper. I like to have coffee."

I do this, but seasonality can be an issue. The last few winters I've added some artificial lighting that ramps up before sunrise, with seemingly positive results.

Re: What’s the rush? The power of a slow morning

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Post by cmg »

ilamont wrote: post #18

I can't read TFA, but wanted to note that there's an interesting statistic in the book Why We Sleep : Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be "night owls" 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. Fo…

Here's a non-paywall version of it: https://outline.com/7WuvGD
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