![]() Behold the little-known facts about night owls: 1. Night owls are more creative than morning larks.Ī common shared trait among night owls is that they feel most creative at night. A 2006 study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found when it came to completing an activity based on originality, elaboration, fluidity, and flexibility factors, evening types aced each tested based on this criteria compared to morning and intermediate-type people. This suggests nocturnal types are more likely to be creative because of their non-conventional spirit that stems from their non-conventional schedules. In other words, they are more likely to find alternative and original solutions.Ģ. Night owls score higher on general intelligence tests. Teens are often encouraged to go to sleep early to perform better at school, but night owls may have the upper hand when it comes to general intelligence. A 2013 study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences found while morning birds did outperform night owls in school, night owls tend to score higher on inductive reasons tests, which is related to general intelligence. Let me know on Twitter if you’re going to give this a try…and/or if you’re down to go in on a brunch-only restaurant together.These traits tend to be associated with greater occupational success and higher incomes. (Also when you stop letting bird sleep cycles dictate how you describe yourself.) Trust me: Work’s a lot more enjoyable when you’re not forcing your brain to slog through assignments when it’s not in the mood. So, if you’re in the same boat of not being an early bird or a night owl, why not figure out what your golden hours are-and then, barring urgent tasks, do your best to schedule around those. ![]() And that saving all the easy stuff for the times when you do feel like a zombie makes those “I’m not exactly at my best” patches also feel productive. While I’m not going to lie that pushing your expenses to 5:30 PM suddenly makes them exhilarating (or even moderately interesting), I will tell you that using your peak creativity time to do creative things makes that part of your day much more fun and productive. You know, all those things that I have to do to do my job well, but I’m never, ever excited to sit down and actually get started on. Creating my to-do list for the next day.What qualifies as brain-less (my boss might ask as she’s reading this)? And because I turn into a zombie as soon as the sun sets, I save all my brain-less tasks for then. Here’s how it works: Because my peak hours-or golden hours as they’re known in some circles-are midday, I block off that time for creative work. In the interest of not giving my parents heart attacks, I opted for number two (although, if I had known that Instagram would take off and that taking photos of your eggs would be socially acceptable, I might’ve changed my tune). ![]() Or two, learn to schedule my day around the hours when I’m good at my job. One: Open up a brunch-only restaurant so I can always be on my A-game. Knowing that left me with two choices when I started working. That means if you met me at lunch, you’d leave the meal saying, “I now know what caffeine would look like if it came to life! What ideas! What vision!”īut if you asked me to meet up at either 8 AM or 8 PM, your thoughts would be more along the lines of, “It would’ve been nice of her to mention she was in a coma before agreeing to grab a drink.”Īs you can imagine, this is a problem, because the average workday is eight hours and most professionals don’t love the “Sorry, but I’m totally brain dead after 2 PM” email response. In fact, I’d say that my peak productivity hours are between 10 AM and 2 PM. The catch is that I’m also not a night owl.
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