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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."
For anyone interested in changing their sleep habits and becoming a regular early riser, I found this guy's blog to be quite helpful: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-e...
There is another, far-less famous, far-more sane blogger like him, but I can't find his page and don't remember his name. Maybe someone here can help me out.
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'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.
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.
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Same here. Being able to go for a swim, lift weights, using the climbing wall, etc. when stuck on a problem is great.
Where do you work? Would love to be somewhere with a pool to take laps in.
For anyone interested in changing their sleep habits and becoming a regular early riser, I found this guy's blog to be quite helpful: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-e...
When my alarm goes off every morning, I turn it off, stretch for a couple seconds, and sit up
Is what everyone already knows. The article implies that you somehow just do this and conveniently ignores how useless that advice is for breaking or replacing habits. Especially ones where you’re not going to be alert enough to even remember that you’re supposed to be be doing something.
If you simply go to bed when you’re sleepy and then get up at a fixed time, you’ll cure your insomnia
This is not how insomnia works at all. ”If you simply be happy you’ll cure your depression!”
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I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.
I'm confident you could work in the morning if you readjusted your sleeping habits. And there are a ton of jobs out there that start later in the day or have flexible work hours.
This subthread is about the possible/probable genetic reasons why some people have more trouble adjusting their sleeping habits to that of everyone else. Saying that he just needs to adjust his sleeping habits is not really helpful.
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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.
I get up at 5am to avoid traffic.
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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
I first established this habit back when I was married, so I can attest that it’s compatible with at least some romantic relationships. Can’t speak to the problem of balancing discretionary time and parental responsibilities, other than to say “Good luck!”