But there may be a connection to genetics. Again, correlation isn’t causation, she says. In one recent study, for example, the University of Haifa’s Neta Ram-Vlasov found that more visually-creative people had more sleep disturbances, such as waking several times at night or insomnia.
Other research also has hinted that your sleep preference may be biologically ‘bundled’ with other characteristics. As one recent study found, even as people tried to become ‘morning’ people, it didn’t make them have a better mood or life satisfaction, suggesting these traits are “intrinsic components of the late chronotype.” The only ones who don’t may inherently have more rebellious, or individualistic, traits.īut shifting someone’s chronotype doesn’t necessarily change these traits. For a night owl waking at 7am, her body still thinks she’s asleep and is acting accordingly, so she’s groggy for much longer than a morning person who wakes up at the same time.īecause the cultural stereotype is that people who go to bed and rise late are lazy, most people probably try to become morning people as much as they can. That means people who enjoy rising early will be more aligned with their workday and likely to achieve more. If you’re a morning person, a combination of biological changes, from your hormones to body temperature, will get you up and at 'em way ahead of your night owl peers. Instead, it may be that most of us are expected to start work or school by 8 or 9am. In other words, it’s not clear that waking up early itself provides the benefit.
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( Famous late risers include Box CEO Aaron Levie and Buzzfeed CEO Jonah Peretti, plus creatives like James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Gustave Flaubert).īut more importantly, in a phrase beloved by academics everywhere, correlation isn’t causation. First, not all high achievers are early risers, and not all early risers are successful. In our rush to figure out the ‘secrets’ of success, we tend to forget a couple of things. But compared to your peers, you’ll probably always fall within the same rough part of the spectrum. Children tend toward morning, with a peak shift toward night around age 20 and a slight change back toward morning at around age 50.
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