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I’d love to hear how to start today efficiently. Please do share! Sincerely, A true night owl.

• auggierose 1y ago
  Go to bed not later than 11pm. Wake up not later than 6am. Try to avoid HN after waking up and get straight to work. If you are productive as a night owl, you will be even more productive this way.
  • satvikpendem 1y ago
    The problem is the falling asleep part for many night owls, insomnia is the issue.
    • smartbit 1y ago
      Have you tried sports? Someone mentioned bicycling 100km which imho is quite exhausting and gives me a good night of sleep.
      • pvtmert 1y ago
        I do cycling, currently based in Luxembourg. I cycle (for fun & sports) about 10.000 (ten-thousand) kilometers per year. I also like 100+km rides, although I do that weekly mostly between mid-April to mid-September period... I can easily sleep 10 hours, start at any time. It's not a problem of falling asleep, it's a problem of waking up :)
    • auggierose 1y ago
      If you get up at 6am, you will be tired at 11pm.
      • satvikpendem 1y ago
        That's the thing about insomnia, it simply doesn't work the way you think, it can sometimes be an actual sleeping disorder.
        • auggierose 1y ago
          Sure, this is not medical advice. In case you are not sick, this will work though.
          • smartbit 1y ago
            That he doesn’t react to the suggestion of trying daily a few hours of cardio exercises instead preferring a few hours of insomnia, indeed tells me there are other issues in his/her life.
            • omgmajk 1y ago
              That's because every person who struggles with sleep has heard this advice a thousand times. It just doesn't work for all of us. I lift weights, and I make sure to do big muscle groups. I wake up around the same time every day, ish. I do not drink coffee in the afternoon. I do not use blue light screens at night. And any number of other advice that people keep bringing up. Like the comment above that says if you wake up at 06, you will be tired at 23. Yeah, sure, but you still won't be able to sleep. All that does is make you more tired permanently, but sleep still doesn't happen. People just do not work the same, some people are really more active at night. And this advice is echoed constantly whenever this topic is brought up.
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              • southernplaces7 1y ago
                For what it's worth as one bit of advice: Try to make the best of what you can do in those long deep night hours. If you can't use them for sleep, as a deep night owl, then make them count for something else that's useful. Many of history's most interesting, famous and also infamous characters (and overall very productive people by sheer virtue of their achievements) were extreme night owls. It didn't stop them from creating and working. For certain types of endeavor or work in particular, the part of the day in which the hours are put in isn't nearly so relevant as the hours simply being used in the first place. Just a few observations from one night owl to another; I can rarely go to sleep before 4 am.
  • SenHeng 1y ago
    Ah yes, the tried and true “Have you tried not being a night owl?” method. Works every time.