Early recovery is not a guarantee of high productivity. Here is what you need
One of the greatest productivity myths is this: waking up early in the morning, you increase your productivity.
Getting up early, you do not improve your own performance. There is no difference between the socio-economic position of the “larks” and “owls” . The real benefit comes from careful planning of your life and work - including the morning routine .
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The idea of ​​early ascents is now in fashion: a lot of people dream of becoming a successful morning person who has time to drink a cup of coffee, read the news, practice and meditate before the rest of the world awakens. And don’t get me wrong: many people really wake up early every day, they like it and benefit.
But here's the problem: research shows that waking time does not affect productivity. There is no difference in the socio-economic situation of early birds and sleepers.
This happens with many recommendations regarding performance, if the very concept of change turns out to be much more interesting than the actions that will have to be done in order to implement it.
Everyone likes the idea of ​​training, owning a bump press and raw feeding. But in practice, such changes involve many small daily sacrifices that seem to inconvenience more than good.
To achieve major changes, you often need to swim against the current, fighting the tsunami of tiny habits. Therefore, you should first ask yourself why you need these changes, and then, having made a decision, carefully consider your actions.
If we talk about the time of awakening, then I have a theory about what can really increase your productivity: careful planning of recovery. There is one idea that I invariably return to in my experiments, interviews and research: the most successful people do their work not on autopilot - they act deliberately and prudently.
The same concept applies to the morning routine. If some larks are more productive than owls, then the reason is that they plan their awakening and the activity that follows it. The clothes for jogging are prepared in advance (provided that they do not sleep in it), to start the coffee maker, just press the button, and the morning newspaper is already waiting at the door.
Whether you get up at 5:30 or 8:30, you still have 16 hours to make your day successful and rewarding.
In fact, your productivity after waking up depends on how deliberately you spend your time, attention and energy.
PS We recommend another useful article on the subject of work on yourself - 15 people who prove that you will not have to wake up early to be successful .
The author of the translation is Vyacheslav Davidenko, the founder of the TESTutor company.
Getting up early, you do not improve your own performance. There is no difference between the socio-economic position of the “larks” and “owls” . The real benefit comes from careful planning of your life and work - including the morning routine .
')
The idea of ​​early ascents is now in fashion: a lot of people dream of becoming a successful morning person who has time to drink a cup of coffee, read the news, practice and meditate before the rest of the world awakens. And don’t get me wrong: many people really wake up early every day, they like it and benefit.
But here's the problem: research shows that waking time does not affect productivity. There is no difference in the socio-economic situation of early birds and sleepers.
This happens with many recommendations regarding performance, if the very concept of change turns out to be much more interesting than the actions that will have to be done in order to implement it.
Everyone likes the idea of ​​training, owning a bump press and raw feeding. But in practice, such changes involve many small daily sacrifices that seem to inconvenience more than good.
To achieve major changes, you often need to swim against the current, fighting the tsunami of tiny habits. Therefore, you should first ask yourself why you need these changes, and then, having made a decision, carefully consider your actions.
If we talk about the time of awakening, then I have a theory about what can really increase your productivity: careful planning of recovery. There is one idea that I invariably return to in my experiments, interviews and research: the most successful people do their work not on autopilot - they act deliberately and prudently.
The same concept applies to the morning routine. If some larks are more productive than owls, then the reason is that they plan their awakening and the activity that follows it. The clothes for jogging are prepared in advance (provided that they do not sleep in it), to start the coffee maker, just press the button, and the morning newspaper is already waiting at the door.
Whether you get up at 5:30 or 8:30, you still have 16 hours to make your day successful and rewarding.
In fact, your productivity after waking up depends on how deliberately you spend your time, attention and energy.
PS We recommend another useful article on the subject of work on yourself - 15 people who prove that you will not have to wake up early to be successful .
The author of the translation is Vyacheslav Davidenko, the founder of the TESTutor company.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/307986/
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