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I've noticed if you are passionate about something, you don't track time, you don't care about your surroundings and lose yourself in what you are doing. That's

I've noticed if you are passionate about something, you don't track time, you don't care about your surroundings and lose yourself in what you are doing. That's when productivity happens and it doesn't respect sunlight always. However, it is easier on most human beings to have a circadian rhythm aligned with sunlight and workout first thing in the morning to jump start the day. It is more sustainable in the long run to do that to have a healthy routine from my perspective and backed by research. Shawn Stevenson has some good insight on that to get you started.

InclinedPlane 8y ago
Or... this could be ADHD hyperfocus or bipolar II hypomania. Not everyone is the same, and not everyone experiences periods of just losing themselves in their work completely without any knowledge of time passing.
- sebringj 8y ago
  Where did "time flies when your having fun" come from? Time seems to move faster when you are actively doing something that envelopes your faculties, even if it has something to do with tracking time, like completing a complicated algorithm with a limited time to do it. Maybe you don't like general statements even if they are not implied to cover all cases?
- stagas 8y ago
  Wow, what a quick jump to pathologize someone's behavior based on some pattern you spotted that bares some resemblance to a mental disorder. Psychiatry is not an exact science, and this labelling does more harm than good when used out of context. A person can be classified with a mental disorder _only_ when that behavior starts having negative effects to their lives, and not merely by satisfying some of the symptoms. Someone can act hypomanic or depressed and that can fluctuate through their life but until that starts having severe negative effects that they can't escape from on their own, it is simply the expression of their character and their uniqueness as a human being, rich and complex. Otherwise you can classify with a mental disorder pretty much everyone.

InclinedPlane 8y ago

Or... this could be ADHD hyperfocus or bipolar II hypomania. Not everyone is the same, and not everyone experiences periods of just losing themselves in their work completely without any knowledge of time passing.

sebringj 8y ago
Where did "time flies when your having fun" come from? Time seems to move faster when you are actively doing something that envelopes your faculties, even if it has something to do with tracking time, like completing a complicated algorithm with a limited time to do it. Maybe you don't like general statements even if they are not implied to cover all cases?
stagas 8y ago
Wow, what a quick jump to pathologize someone's behavior based on some pattern you spotted that bares some resemblance to a mental disorder. Psychiatry is not an exact science, and this labelling does more harm than good when used out of context. A person can be classified with a mental disorder _only_ when that behavior starts having negative effects to their lives, and not merely by satisfying some of the symptoms. Someone can act hypomanic or depressed and that can fluctuate through their life but until that starts having severe negative effects that they can't escape from on their own, it is simply the expression of their character and their uniqueness as a human being, rich and complex. Otherwise you can classify with a mental disorder pretty much everyone.