ignore these limits
thrilling fact that night owls have
been vindicated
From the article, Forget the 5am starts! Night owls like me possess the real secret of success by Arwa Mahdawi in the article where Ms. Mahdawi writes:
Research led by academics at Imperial College London studied data on more than 26,000 people and found that “self-declared ‘night owls’ generally tend to have higher cognitive scores”. And we are talking quite a lot higher. “Evening types … scored about 13.5% higher than morning types in one group and 7.5% higher than morning types in another group”, according to a write-up of the study.
Experts have urged caution in interpreting the findings, saying, for instance, that there are “important limitations”. Still, I think we can ignore these limitations for now and focus on the thrilling fact that night owls have finally been vindicated.
I have never ever been a morning person.
I have never ever been called a morning person.
Sadly, most of my life has been designed to begin with an early morning start.
Larry McMurtry’s thoughts on Captain Woodrow Call and getting up in the morning in the book Lonesome Dove might describe me.
Mr. McMurtry writes: To Call’s regret he had never been able to come awake easily. His joints felt like they were filled with glue, and it was an irritation to see Augustus sitting on the black kettle looking as fresh as if he’d slept all night, when in fact he had probably played poker till one or two o’clock. Getting up early and feeling awake was the one skill he had never truly perfected — he got up, of course, but it never felt natural.
Now I can’t stay up.
I miss those dark hours for reading.
Late late at night when no one else was up or around.
That’s when it seemed like my brain really kicked in.
Growing up in a family with 10 brothers and sisters.
College with 4 guys sharing a 450 square feet of apartment.
Seven kids in my family.
Late late at night when no one else was up or around.
So there is research that shows us folks who liked being up at night have higher cognitive scores that those morning folks.
I didn’t need any research.
It was something I already knew.
If those morning folks had been smarter, they would have been up late at night.
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