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5 Reasons Why Night Owls Are Highly Productive.
Aleksandar Ilic
When it comes to productivity split between Night Owls
and Early Birds,
stereotypes have put the nocturnal workers at a great
disadvantage.
They were always seen as poor choices for employees
because their nocturnal living habits
allegedly stifle their productivity. Well, due to the
developing culture of the “Internet nation”,
a big chunk of which are passionate Night Owls, there
have been many studies recently
that show the people who live when it’s dark in
a completely different light.
1. They have
unique energy bursts in the evening
You would assume that the energy that is at your disposal
during a day is steadily depleted
until you are tired and ready to sleep, but you are
wrong, at least when it comes to people
that are active at night. According to one study, Night Owls
have an energy peak
that naturally occurs in the evening and at that moment,
they feel refreshed and ready for action.
It is bad for their sleeping pattern but definitely great
for their productivity
and this is something that their early rising
counterparts do not have.
Early birds steadily deplete their energy throughout
their day
and do not have the energy burst in the morning after they wake up.
This phenomena is strictly attributed to people who are
used to having active night lives.
2.
They strike success more often
A lot of you may be sceptical about this, but if you take
a look at the facts
and start researching backgrounds of successful people,
you are quickly going to realize
that there is a lot of truth to this statement. The
current president of the US, Barack Obama,
is an admitted Night Owl and the list of successful
people who prefer doing work at night
goes on and on. There have been numerous studies that have confirmed the hypothesis
that Night Owls have a better chance of making it in the
world
so don’t worry, you are in good company.
3. They are
statistically more intelligent
Of course, this isn’t a strict rule and should not be
taken as a given
but a study
conducted at the London School
of Economics and Political Science,
seems to indicate a firm correlation between higher IQ
and adaptive behavior
with the genetic predisposition of being a Night Owl. Satoshi
Kanazawa, an evolutionary scientist who conducted this research, classifies
this kind of behavior as the “evolutionary novel”,
which is basically a deviation from the more common
behavior of our ancestors.
4. They have a
better concentration after long hours
A study conducted by a joint team of scientists from
Belgium and Switzerland conducted a trial
with 16 early birds and 15 night owls in an attempt to
compare their productivity
and concentration. Although both groups performed
similarly in the beginning,
somewhere around the 10 hour mark into the day, early
birds started lagging behind.
During this study, the team used MRIs to monitor the
regions of the brain that are responsible
for our ability to focus and pay attention. Professor
Christina Schmidt led this experiment
but the
entire project included quite a large team and
was published in the Science journal.
Our ability to concentrate has a lot to do with our
productivity
and the facts are actually stacked in favor of Night
Owls.
Still, depression is three times more present with Night
Owls than their counterparts,
according to a study published in Psychiatry and Clinical
Neuroscience,
and this can be attributed to two factors.
Less exposure to sunlight can cause a
deficiency of vitamin D, which can lead to depression.
This is something that you need to keep in mind and
adjust your diet to compensate for this loss.
Again, there is nothing better than the natural way of
things, so take a vacation this spring
and take a
week to spend time outdoors soaking
in the sun and getting some fresh air.
Furthermore, the fact that it is our pattern to be awake
and active when everyone is asleep
makes socialization a bit difficult to accomplish, the
lack of which can cause depression as well.
Still, if you manage to get these two factors under
control,
you are going to be far more effective than you thought
you could be.
5. They have a
flexible sleeping schedule
In the book Sleepfaring:
A Journey Through the Science of Sleep, professor
Jon Horne
explains that people who are Night Owls have a much
easier time adjusting to their 9 to 5 schedule than Early Birds have. If you
invest serious effort into the change, you will soon realize
that you can read just rather quickly and remain
productive. And remember, that energy boost
that happens in the evenings, still applies so if you
really need to take care of your business,
you can always rely on it to tie up any lose ends and put
in some extra effort.
The myth that people with the “bad habit” of being active
at night and sleeping in late in the day
is really outdated and should not be a real factor during
hiring. After all, approximately one quarter of the World’s population has this
genetic trait, so businesses and hiring experts
need to keep in mind the talent that they might be
passing out on based on outdated prejudice.
Furthermore, the 9 till 5 schedule is slowly dying out
with the rise of the online business model
and the globalization of the work environment, so it
seems that the situation is getting
a bit more favorable for Night Owls. A big part of the
online freelancer community falls
into this category and the majority of them really enjoy
the freedom that this work style offers.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/5-reasons-why-night-owls-are-highly-productive.html
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