Schools are experimenting with deferred start times, driven by studies showing that teens do better scholastically and emotionally on a later schedule. Tech entrepreneurs including Mark Zuckerberg and Alexis Ohanian talk openly and unabashedly about their night-owl tendencies.
#NOT A NIGHT OWL MEME CRACK#
And more and more of us work from home, connecting to the office remotely, with our jammies on if we please.īacked by science, late risers are, um, rising up, albeit more toward noon than at the crack of dawn. day at the office also lets me skirt the worst of commuting traffic.) Online shopping and meal ordering have made store and restaurant hours increasingly obsolete. An estimated 80 percent of businesses now offer flexible work hours. Globalization and technology let us bust through time zones. Ever try to find a bar at 7 a.m.?) “Delayed sleep phase syndrome” has also been linked to personality disorders like narcissism and psychopathy.īut guess what? The world is changing yet again, shaken by a revolution as profound as that long-ago shift to farming.
To bolster their superiority, early risers like to point to research showing that night owls die earlier, have poorer memories, suffer more from depression, and drink and smoke more than slugabeds. As Rosemary Braun, a Northwestern University biostatistics professor, recently described it, “The clock on the wall isn’t always a good indication of what time it is for you personally.” Research confirms that we’re pretty much born with our internal clocks, and there’s no sense trying to tinker with them. This makes the tyranny that society’s larks exert over scheduling even more infuriating. While it’s true that most humans are early risers - Matthew Walker, director of the Center for Human Sleep Science at University of California, Berkeley, puts the figure at 40 percent - nearly that many, 30 percent, are latter-day saints like me, with the other 30 percent falling somewhere in between. What’s more, the fact I get enough sleep means I don’t nod off in a rocking chair with my mouth open after two beers, unlike certain other parties I could name if I wasn’t interested in my marriage lasting 36 years.Īs science delves more deeply into what’s now being termed chronotype diversity, some interesting tidbits have turned up. club, the hour at which they are apparently able to make even more money without interruption) has extolled the virtues of getting up an hour early enough to mean you will never really be that much fun at parties.īut now, that whole early-to-rise spiel is just left over from when humans turned to agriculture and had to work 18-hour days to eke a living from the land. In the 20th century, everyone from Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá (who gave the name “the heroic minute” to that instant when the alarm goes off and by sheer force of will decent humans everywhere spring from their beds, already giving thanks for the newfound day) to Fortune 500 CEOs (proud members of the 4 a.m. While Ben was responsible for that “Early to bed, early to rise” crapola, it was some nameless biblical sage who decreed, “Do not love sleep or you will grow poor.” And, man, that advice lingered. I’m what’s left at the tail end of human evolution - a lazy, shiftless profligate who should be thoroughly ashamed of myself.Īctually, I should start with whatever dude wrote the Book of Proverbs.
Me, I’ll sleep in till the last possible minute, grab coffee at Dunkin’, and barely make it to my office at the appointed hour.ĭoug is viewed by society at large as a rock, a pillar, a stand-up guy with clean morals and a superb work ethic. He’ll be up by 3:30, hurrying downstairs to make himself a big hot breakfast, then dashing off to the gym before he heads for work. Upstairs, my husband of 35 years has been asleep for hours.
Is it any wonder this is my favorite time of day? I don’t have to justify myself if I want to turn the thermostat higher I don’t need to negotiate over whether to mute the commercials. En español | It’s 1 a.m., and I’m sitting in my living room, watching what I choose on TV, as happy as a clam.
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