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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.
At work, the motivating factors are different, and you have someone pushing you to get stuff done.
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Out of curiosity, what do you differently during your 30 minute meditation than during the pranayama?
For pranayama I practice things like nadi sodhana, bhastrika, and visama vrtti, with kumbhakas depending on what I'm doing. My meditation is probably closest to what people call vipassana these days -- it's watching the breath or another meditation object without any active control of it (which isn't completely correct, as attention does affect the breath). Pranayama on the other hand is an active manipulation of the…
I can recommend the practice; for the last few years, I've gone to bed around 10pm every night, and gotten up at five before heading to work around nine. (Adjust to taste depending on your sleep needs; the important point is to give yourself a few hours to yourself in the morning.) In practice, this means moving discretionary time from last thing in the day to first thing, and I think there's great value in that. Aft…
do you have a SO or kids? I ask because my experience is this doesn't work as well when you move past single responsibility. It tends (a) reduce discretionary time and (b) push it earlier or later
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…
I just finished the book, and am putting a lot more focus on my sleep. One thing it made me realize is, I don't think it's possible for people to know if they're night owls or not, until they're routinely getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Of course if you're not getting enough sleep you'll find it hard to get up in the morning and thus claim you're a "night owl" and "can't function in the morning".
I'm 30 and I'm still not sure whether I'm a night owl or not, even though I'm awake late into the night 90% of the time. Could just be a habit that I've developed over the years with the aid of artificial lighting and computing.
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do you have a SO or kids? I ask because my experience is this doesn't work as well when you move past single responsibility. It tends (a) reduce discretionary time and (b) push it earlier or later
Exactly. Early morning routine becomes getting kids out of bed, dressed, fed, and off to school. If you're getting up before THAT to do your own things, it would need to be really early.
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.
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.
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do you have a SO or kids? I ask because my experience is this doesn't work as well when you move past single responsibility. It tends (a) reduce discretionary time and (b) push it earlier or later
Exactly. Early morning routine becomes getting kids out of bed, dressed, fed, and off to school. If you're getting up before THAT to do your own things, it would need to be really early.
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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.
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I could never do this. Because even with really good sleep hygene and good early bedtime habits, the earliest I ever wake up is 6:30 am. And those are rare days. More often bedtime will slip to 10 pm or later and I will awake naturally between 8:30 am and 9:30 am. I'm just not a morning person, no matter what I do. And I'm a 9 hour+ sleeper, so I need those sleep hours.
> And I'm a 9 hour+ sleeper, so I need those sleep hours. Most people need at least 8-8.5 hours (as in 99.999%). He does too, just doesn't realize it.
He didn't say what time he went to bed or how many hours of sleep he got