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As a self-proclaimed evening person, I struggle to admit this, but I do find my rare early mornings calming and satisfying in a way I never expected. As Arthur C. Brooks notes in a recent article, not everyone is built to feel their best at the same time of day. But there are things you can do to add stability to whichever time of day you feel your most stressed out. “If you, like me, struggle to feel human in the morning, this protocol can probably help you,” Brooks writes. Today’s newsletter rounds up stories about how different people prefer to get through the earliest hours of the day.
On Mornings
Six Ways to Start Early and Lift Your Mood
By Arthur C. Brooks
Try my protocol for a happy start to the day and see what works for your own well-being.
Why an Early Start Is the ‘Quintessence of Life’
By Arthur C. Brooks
Not sleeping late could be the best resolution you ever keep.
Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America’s Insomnia?
By Derek Thompson
The history of “first sleep” and “second sleep” holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past. (From 2022)
Still Curious?
- Down with morning people: Morning people fizzle. Non-morning people get stronger as the day wears on, James Parker argued in 2021.
- The life of a person who wakes up really, really early: “Extreme larks” get up naturally when some people have hardly gone to bed, Olga Khazan wrote in 2019.
Other Diversions
- A Spinal Tap sequel riffs on the end of rock.
- Photos of the week: lunar eclipse, sandbar cricket, horn dance
- The fandom fueling Netflix’s most popular movie ever
The post How People Make the Most of Their Mornings appeared first on The Atlantic.
