Science Says Your Highest Alertness is at 10 a.m — Why Wake up at 6 a.m?
If you’ve ever been interested in getting stuff done and being an over-achiever, you’ve probably checked out productivity-related content before. No matter the platform, this type of advice is overwhelmingly delivered by the same type of individual: young, fit, healthy, ultra-busy but in control, more often than not better looking than average, and most importantly: he/she is an early riser.
These people not only love to get a ton of work done and brag about it, they love to do it early. By the time you wake up, they’ve already crunched a 1-hour workout, posted a YouTube video, worked on the manuscript for their next book, and had a breakfast healthier than anything you’ve eaten in the past 2 months. Their secret? Wake up at 6, 5, or even 4 a.m. for some of them.
Look up any image of a circadian rhythm online, and they all say the same thing: our highest level of alertness hits around 10 a.m, not 4, 5, or 6 a.m. In fact, the melatonin secretion (the sleep-regulating hormone) only stops around 7:30 a.m! This doesn’t necessarily you will be fighting a feeling of grogginess for the first 2 hours of your day if you wake up early (you may be an early riser), but it definitely shows that waking up early is not a “default” behavior expected by nature of the human race.
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