Aristotle on Waking up Early

[Lupe]

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

Exactly how long before daybreak should we try to wake up?

10 minutes? 2 hours?

[supertom]

Theres just anything special about getting up before sunrise and before others, its like you living your life. just anytime before daybreak,

daylight savings stuffs it up since i gotta asjust to a new time

[RT Wolf]

Try it and find out. I tend to wake up at 9AM every morning and get 9.25 hours of sleep. I tend to go to sleep when I'm feeling sleepy and yawning. This works for me. Try various things out for yourself and see what works.

[magi13]

you have to consider the nature and the circumstance of the people at the time aristotle was alive. ^^, they work early, with respect to his advice it maximizes the total amount of time you can work efficiently in the day

[Liveformx64]

One big difference between us and Aristotle. The Light bulb! Productivity has no relevance to the night and day cycles.

Sleep schedule is simply habit reinforced by our body clock.

The amount of sleep one needs is completely unique from one person to the next, and more based on up-bringing and genetics.

Although I think if you truly want to be the super high achiever and work horse your will power can train your brain to function perfectly well on less sleep.

[magi13]

Originally Posted by Liveformx64

One big difference between us and Aristotle. The Light bulb! Productivity has no relevance to the night and day cycles.

Sleep schedule is simply habit reinforced by our body clock.

The amount of sleep one needs is completely unique from one person to the next, and more based on up-bringing and genetics.

Although I think if you truly want to be the super high achiever and work horse your will power can train your brain to function perfectly well on less sleep.

i'd like to add provided that your body has relaxed and is well rested. you cannot be a high achiever if your body has less sleep if you did not rest well the previous night.

[Liveformx64]

Originally Posted by magi13

i'd like to add provided that your body has relaxed and is well rested. you cannot be a high achiever if your body has less sleep if you did not rest well the previous night.

I agree.

There is a big difference between quantity and quality.

[Lupe]

Early bird. Get up early in the morning, like at 5am, and go straight to work on your most important task. You can often get more done before 8am than most people do in a day.

Exactly why is this?

[magi13]

The one who comes first beats a hard working person who arrives late.

It's a job related quote.

[gblunt99]

Anthony Trollope wrote over forty big fat novels that are still read today. He also worked full time for the British Post Office (where he invented the pillar box--forerunner of the mailbox). The way he wrote his books was, he worked on them every morning between 5:30 and 8:30, with the goal of turning out four pages an hour (or one page every fifteen minutes) for a total of twelve pages a day. If he happened to finish a novel in this time, he would promptly start another one. He related this in his autobiography and his reputation promptly fell, because people felt a creative writer shouldn't be such a regular person. It flouted the romantic ideas about inspiration and free spirits etc.

Now, somewhere in that day he had to be planning what he was going to write the next morning, because you can't turn out ten pages of prose and dialogue that makes any sense unless you've a pretty good idea of who is going to do what to whom and when and how. I don't know her working methods, but Joyce Carol Oates must have some similar routine. She has turned out over 100 books while holding down a job as a university professor. Isaac Asimov turned out 400 books, and he said this was strictly through diligence, not any particular gift. Although I frankly wonder if diligence itself isn't a gift that some people are born with and the rest of us have to cultivate.