![]() ![]() You’re who you are, not Fitzgerald or Thomas Wolfe. There’s no one way-there’s too much drivel about this subject. The novelist Bernard Malamud came to this same conclusion: The answer to the question of “What time should you wake up to do your best work?” is: “Whatever time works best for you.” The real takeaway then, is that there isn’t in fact one “right” time to wake up if you want to be creative and successful. This gave me the wake-up times for a sample set of 68 individuals, and these have been graphed below: My aim was just to get a feel for the general range of times that these folks got up each day. In the few cases where a person woke up not at a straight o’clock (i.e., _:00) and instead arose at _:30, or were said to arise sometime between _ and _, I “rounded” to the earlier hour in half the cases, and to the later hour in the other half. I only marked down those for whom a specific time was given, skipping entries where the time was kept more vague (e.g., “early morning” or “early afternoon”). As I read each entry, I kept a tally of when each individual woke up. The book is a collection of short descriptions of the daily routines of 161 eminent authors, mathematicians, architects, and artists - folks who did creative work and were able to set their own schedules. I decided to find out by re-reading Mason Currey’s Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work. Is there truly a correlation between waking up early and success? The Morning Person as Success Story: Considering the Evidence ![]() “The early bird gets the worm” “Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” Beyond even the idea that rising early has a practical benefit in aiding productivity, there’s a moral connotation to this habit as well early risers are perceived as having more discipline, while their late-rising peers are often perceived as lazy. It’s popularly thought that the best time to wake up is early in the morning. The time you get up each day seems to be a potentially impactful pivot point from which the quantity and quality of one’s ensuing work and decision0making will flow. There seems to be special weight placed on this decision, a feeling perhaps born of the idea that how you start something determines how the rest of it will go. This is especially true of the choice of when to wake up each day. We feel there are likely habits common to high-achievers, which, if duplicated, would help us all elevate our own work. People have long been fascinated by their fellow humans’daily routines - particularly the routines of successful people, like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Oprah, Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, or Arianna Huffington. ![]()
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