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> I don’t know anyone who consistently wakes up before 6am and isn’t doing something interesting with their life Is this true? I'm in trouble then. I absolut

> I don’t know anyone who consistently wakes up before 6am and isn’t doing something interesting with their life Is this true? I'm in trouble then. I absolutely hate everything about mornings. My ideal schedule is going to bed about 2:00 AM and waking up naturally between 10:00 and 11:00 AM. Surely there's some successful start-up founders who do this?

joelg87 14y ago
I know there are a lot of people who are very successful in those late quiet hours, rather than the early morning quiet hours. Tim Ferriss is a key person who comes to mind. However, the point I'm trying to make here is that in the case of the early morning risers, I find they are much more consistently doing incredible work in their lives. To observe that early risers are consistently successful, it doesn't mean that late night workers aren't successful. I've just found anecdotally that if you were to take a sample of early risers vs late night workers, the first group seems to have a higher percentage of successful people.
- WalterSear 14y ago
  I'd say the same about night owls, so you've really said nothing about anything but the company you keep.
DanBC 14y ago
I'm guessing the author has limited social circles. Do they know many cleaners; road sweepers; 'binmen' (garbage truck workers)? etc. These people are just people - maybe some of them are doing interesting things with their life but I doubt it's just because they're waking early. The comment feels a bit like cargo-cultism. I'm fighting my own biases here, because I feel much better if I wake early and I feel like my early mornings are much more productive.
- greenyoda 14y ago
  Not to mention that lots of office workers start at 8:00 or 8:30am and have to commute an hour or more to get to work. Lots of schools start at 8:00am, so teachers have to wake up early and parents have to wake up early to get their children ready for school and themselves ready for work. Having a choice about when we want to wake up in the morning is a luxury that very few working people get to enjoy.

joelg87 14y ago

I know there are a lot of people who are very successful in those late quiet hours, rather than the early morning quiet hours. Tim Ferriss is a key person who comes to mind. However, the point I'm trying to make here is that in the case of the early morning risers, I find they are much more consistently doing incredible work in their lives. To observe that early risers are consistently successful, it doesn't mean that late night workers aren't successful. I've just found anecdotally that if you were to take a sample of early risers vs late night workers, the first group seems to have a higher percentage of successful people.

WalterSear 14y ago
I'd say the same about night owls, so you've really said nothing about anything but the company you keep.

DanBC 14y ago

I'm guessing the author has limited social circles. Do they know many cleaners; road sweepers; 'binmen' (garbage truck workers)? etc. These people are just people - maybe some of them are doing interesting things with their life but I doubt it's just because they're waking early. The comment feels a bit like cargo-cultism. I'm fighting my own biases here, because I feel much better if I wake early and I feel like my early mornings are much more productive.

greenyoda 14y ago
Not to mention that lots of office workers start at 8:00 or 8:30am and have to commute an hour or more to get to work. Lots of schools start at 8:00am, so teachers have to wake up early and parents have to wake up early to get their children ready for school and themselves ready for work. Having a choice about when we want to wake up in the morning is a luxury that very few working people get to enjoy.