What is Digg?156 Comments
- andrewonfire, on 10/12/2007, -9/+139captainherb: because it's fun to watch "digg it" change to "dugg"?
- rauz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+100I'd rather start the day at 10 am than be successful.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -28/+112What are you talking about? That sucked. Was it even an article?
It wasn't about how to start your day as an early riser, it was about how to move your clock so you are forced to wake up to find it.
A better article would have talked about the mental motivation and tactics you need to make this sort of change to your life to enable you to become an early riser.
Lame.
I'm not picking on you for submitting it, but the article itself was nothing. - jimbobaii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+67Just have kids. 5:30 for me, every morning.
:-( - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -7/+71curious mightydavefish, why did you digg it if you feel the article sucked?
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+67I have been a late-riser for over a year now. Monday through Friday I wake up at 12:00 PM without hitting the snooze button even once. I never take naps and rarely feel tired throughout the day or night.
The following is my advice on how to start your day (everyday) at 12:00 PM.The idea of waking up late and starting the day at or after the midday is the desire of many people. Many highly successful people attribute their success, at least in part, to rising midday.
Late-risers have more productive evenings, get more done, and report less stress on average than “early-risers.” However, for the unaccustomed, the task of waking up at 12:00 PM can seem extremely daunting. This article will present five tips about how to physically wake up at 12:00 PM and how to get yourself mentally ready to have a productive evening.
See? I can make informative articles without referring to scientific sources too! Feel free to make your own "Waking up at 7 PM is productive" version. Maybe even find one or two rich people who do so! Paris Hilton maybe? - aroundtheblock, on 11/06/2008, -4/+57How to start your day at 5:00 AM:
Step 1: Wake the ***** up at 5:00 AM and get your ass out of bed and go to work
Step 2: Do whatever it is you have to do once you get there
The End
I seriously don't get these lengthy guides to the most common sense of topics.. If you want to get up early, THEN GET UP EARLY! It isn't rocket science! what's next, 10 steps to wiping your own ass?
I know I'm getting dug down I just don't get how these articles get popular - HFrankenstein, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57Not to mention that it's perfectly reasonable to be successful as a late riser if you find the right job. As an engineer, you'd expect I'd have to be at work at 9 o'clock sharp Monday through Friday, but I let the sun wake me up every morning, which doesn't happen until 8:30 or so during the winter where I live, and don't get to work until 10 at the earliest, and I do great -- especially for a 26-year-old -- because I was fortunate enough to find a position that lets me set my own hours (within reason).
I'm tired (pun intended) of all of this overglorification of the supposed virtues of early rising. I say we run these puritans out of town. - joshman5k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24You'll never make it in the spamming world if you can't link.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22This article claims that night owls are more creative people and can accomplish more than early risers (probably because there are very few distractions late at night).
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Night_Owls_Are_More_Creative - HFrankenstein, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Certain people's body's have certain rhythms. Some people require sunlight for their bodies to wake up properly. If your body needs sunlight in order to be able to function at 100%, then making yourself wake up at 5:00 AM, which is well before sunrise in most parts of the world for most of the year, is just going to make you feel worse. I'm allowed to set my own hours at work, so I tried something similar to this about a year ago. I got up at 5 AM, got to work at 7 AM, and was done for the day at 3 PM. But, even after doing this for six months, by the time I got home, I was too exhausted from having forced myself out of bed before my body was ready, so I wound up in bed right at sunset.
Try this out if you're willing, but if it doesn't work within a month, it's never going to work. Don't kill yourself just because society glorifies the supposed virtues of early rising. You're no better a person than the next guy just because you wake up before he does.
And if you have Seasonal Affective Disorder like I do, don't even bother. You're lucky if you're not out cold any time the sun isn't out. - Elohir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Weirdest thing is, this didn't work for me at all. I bought a new alarm clock, without a snooze button, with different alarms for different days, put it in a combination locked safebox, put it under the sink, everything.
Damned thing hasn't woken me up once! - CoachZed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18So to wake up early, I have to use my alarm clock? This is shocking news to me.
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16The trick is to set 3 alarms at various points around your room going off in 3 minute intervals.
Wait, that doesn't even work for me... - jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I agree with everyone here. I had a 8am job and sweet-talked my way into a 9/10am start time (it's a university, so they're pretty flexible)...that just means I work until 7pm. You miss all the "rush" times which is great (going to/from work, lunch time, etc.) Then I go to bed around 1am.
"Early-risers have more productive mornings, get more done, and report less stress on average than “late-risers.”"
Of course they have more productive mornings...they're AWAKE. I have more productive afternoon/evenings when all of these early-risers are ready for bed. Horrible logic. - LordJezo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I don't understand why this requires such a long instruction set and debate.
I wake up about that time every morning. How do I do it? I have a job that requires me to be here at 7am. The motivation? Not getting fired. - deznice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15post it on a blog so I can digg it :-)
- 3daddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I thought the article was amazingly imcomplete. All it really mentioned was how to make yourself get up. No mention of sleeping habits, how better to prepare for the day or what early risers can do to be more productive and less stressed.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I'm waiting for the upcoming guide on "How to eat Food!" Hopefully, it has the word BREAKING in it, followed with about 3 !!!
- Arcan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Actually, we just let you walk in front so we can talk about you behind your back.
I kid, I kid. - saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Here's a better technique that's good for you, too: drink 16 oz of water (not soda, just water) right before you go to bed. When your alarm goes off, you'll have to pee so badly you won't be able to hit the snooze.
- dadioflex, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16You hit the nail on the head. Unless you have kids then why on earth would you need to get up before 6:30am? Not to mention that if you're getting up at 5am you're probably going to bed around 9pm, before the good TV even starts...
- cstrippie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Just what we need, more useless blogspammers...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Can't even link..
- kelbear, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12An athlete needs rest after hard training. A good night's sleep is important in recuperation so that they can train hard the following day as well. So if I wake at 5am, I need to go to sleep at 9pm.
Yeah.
That's a /great/ idea. *roll eyes* - uberneoconcert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10my boyfriend literally carried me to the shower this morning five minutes before I was supposed to leave...at 7:45.
- lordfly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10My body has thoroughly rejected attempts at trying to get up before the sun does since I was wee. I'm a night person, and I'll be damned if I'm not successful because (regardless) of it.
IF you get up at 5 am, you're going to bed at 9 pm. 9pm is when I get most of my socializing done. Skipping that so I can be up before the birds? ***** that noise.
Hell, I had to get up at 8 am for work and I'm hating it. - pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15I wake up at 4:30a pretty much every weekday for work. One word: responsibility. Besides, you compensate all around ... you get off work earlier, you go to bed earlier, you start earlier ... see how that works? Ultimately, it doesn't matter when you get up, because everyone works different schedules; Just get up, get off work, eat, and go to bed on your own schedule. All these people complaining about "not being able to wake up until the sun is up" are full of BS.
Likewise, however, if work requires you to be up at 4:30a like me, then get up at 4:30a, go to work, go to bed earlier, and quit bitching. What law says you have to stay up until midnight every night just because "society glorifies" it? I go to bed at 9:30p, but I also get off work at 1:30p (MUCH earlier than most other people) - SteelFrog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I was raised in a military household and I do wake up at 5AM every morning. I "sleep in" during the weekend and usually end up waking up at 6AM. It does make a huge difference in productivity; I usually have a ton of stuff done by 9AM while other people are still sleeping.
It's extremely hard to get enough motivation to actually get up at 5AM rather than hitting that very inviting 'snooze' button, but if you stick with it, it pays off on it's own.
(On a side note, my dad works full-time and lives on a farm. He gets up a 3:30 every morning to feed and take care of the animals. Then, he goes to work. Does a full 8 hours shift and when he comes back, takes care of the animals until he goes to bed. Crazy. I don't know how he does it but he's lost about 80lbs in the last three years.) - Commodore69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10As long as we're generalizing that late risers are less successful, I guess we can say that early risers are less social, more robotic conformists that remind me more of computers than people. They usually follow corporate directives with religious zeal and will lead to the downfall of the individual. Either that or they're farmers. Go ahead, wake up early, when you go to bed at 9pm I'll be entertaining your girlfriend.
- mr.hostility, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Let me sum up the "article" for those TLDR people...
"Hide your alarm clock"
What a novel approach, he should copyright this asap. - zorvi4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Wow, I wish I was as successful and perfect as Kyle Pott (the guy who wrote the article). First off, not everybody sings to the tune of the 'early bird'. Some people prefer staying up late, others are morning people, and others like myself don't really have the luxury considering I work during the night and sleep during the day. To me reading this article made about as much sense as taking advice from a motivational speaker. These kinds of people live in a one season world, and already have their minds made up about what life is and isn't regardless of facts. I'm sorry if somebody takes this comment as nothing but attacking him personally but I think this guy is like a "Marie Antoinette". When the countries peasants were starving, when she heard that the people were starving, she naively said "Why don't they just eat some cake?".
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I have to get up at 6:10, and it is essential that my clock is across the room, otherwise, I'd just turn the alarm off and go back to sleep. Its a useful tip, but hardly "how to start your day at [extremely early hour]" If you really want to/have to get up early, go to bed earlier (which is my problem, I'm not in bed until around 1am)
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8HFrankenstein, although I recently started to shift my day by an hour (wake up an hour earlier, get home an hour earlier etc) I definitely agree with you, I've worked serveral jobs were as long as your hours were somewhat reasonable they were up to you. While at my current position many of the upper management are very early risers at my last job it was just the opposite, 10:15 is really the earliest any meeting would ever occur because all of the department heads didn't get in to work until around 10:00 (if that). Standard models for *success* are silly as success within an organization has a lot more to do with how you fit in with a particular culture. If you're an early riser in a place were the upper management comes in at 10 everyday, they'll remember you as the guy who's always leaving before them. The best advice is to find a work environment that matches your personality, then you'll find success in the company and for yourself.
- tortfeasor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@imsoclever
"*****Your***** a graduate student in a lab? But you write like a middle schooler. How does that happen..."
Oh, the irony! - HFrankenstein, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9pcgeek101: Don't you *dare* accuse me of being full of BS. It doesn't have anything to do with responsibility. It's about physiology. A lot of people's serotonin levels sync up with sunrise and sunset. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a significant problem for a lot of people, especially at higher latitudes. I suggest you read up on it. It's incredibly frustrating not being able to function all day just because it's cloudy outside, and hearing self-righteous people like you come down on me for it does not help at all.
You'll notice that I forced myself to wake up at 5 AM every day for six months, and even going to bed at sunset, which during the time I tried it, averaged around 7 - 8PM, so I *think* that counts as pretty gods damned early, my body was never able to get used to it. I'll also note that "going to bed" does not necessarily equate to "sleeping", as it usually took me about two hours to fall asleep when I went to bed that early.
Of course, you also inaccurately point out that I said that society glorifies staying up until midnight, so I'm probably asking too much in suggesting that you actually notice anything that I wrote. Oh well.
If you're able to function with that particular sleep rhythm, then I'm jealous. I wish I could do that, but after the hundreds of dollars I've spent on light therapy and visits to the doctor and prescriptions for sleep aids, it's become pretty clear that such a thing is not an option for me. But do please berate me for it some more. It really makes the whole thing a lot easier to live with. - jsd8cc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6We Americans are way too obsessed with our jobs. I'm sorry, but my career is not the only thing that defines me as a person. I could care less about making money or being successful in the societal sense (I realize I'm probably in the minority here).
We work more than any other people in the world, get half as much time off, and are completely miserable. We're rich, yes, but at what cost? No wonder our many of our families and relationships are tenuous at best. It sounds clichéd but it's true...there are much more important things than wealth or power or recognition. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@steelfrog
i see that, but i also think it is immoral to be so passionate about one thing that you don't give full-time attention to your kids and family, too. the world is based on both society and money, and the concept of society lacks in the USA. your friends should come from places other than work. you should have hobbies. you should be doing things other than work in your own time. why? because if everyone does that, we'll have some great new ways of thinking and inventions out of a select few of them every now and then, and the world will be a happier place. if everyone is forced to work, the geniuses are also forced to work, and they don't spend enough time thinking outside the box.
@violentvinyl
i don't know about you, but now that i'm 22, i have the energy to go out and do stuff, travel, and think in new ways. i'd rather have free time now than when i'm 65. i know "to each is own" but American society needs to be exposed to this other way of thinking - free time now, work consistently, not work your ass off and then have free time when your body can't do anything anymore and you're tied to a family and kids.
@sillyrabbits
why do you say that? 40 hours a week is plenty if you spend it solidly. you do realize i still like to keep up all my childhood hobbies alongside my Ph.D., right? i don't mind taking longer to finish, for having a more enjoyable life in-between, instead of working my ass off now, then having a family, and then not actually being free to do things on my own.
frankly, i suggest you all try working in europe. seriously. because it will give you a sense of what you can do with your own life, of your own will, away from thinking about money. you'll learn to relax, spend time with family, and know what to do with your free time. you'll learn that running naked faster to results is not always the best thing to do in research, if it sacrifices your personal life. you'll learn that art is an important part of life even to non-artists, and you'll learn to take real vacations and understand other cultures. - violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Bear with me, I'm still asleep (almost 9am)...
It's not difficult to get more done than people who are still asleep. I probably have more productive afternoons than you do, not to mention some of us work with actual people, getting things done 3 hours before anyone else even shows up is not a possibility. I also don't like to be nodding off at happy hour.
If your father could afford to lose 80 pounds, he must have been pretty overweight to begin with.
That is all. - Nevrast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6One thing that pisses me off a lot are militant early-risers. I went on a camping trip once with one of these. He'd be up at dawn and then would never let you sleep past seven, shaking your tent and making you get up. There's a lot of early-risers like this who seemingly have no respect for the fact that you work best on a different schedule and as a consequence cause you to get less sleep than you should.
Early risers should just wait it out and do other things until everyone else is ready to get up instead of pretending that they're righteous and trying to get everyone else to be like them. - Jomwilli, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7ChicksWithDiggs:
Some of us have jobs and don't live in our parents basement with the highlight of our weekday mornings being Fruity Pebbles and cartoons. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13here's the thing. as a human being and having multiple interests, i always, always, want to make sure that my free time is greater than my work time. that means, if i work 40 hours a week, i want to be working on my own stuff / socializing / travelling / etc. for 40 hours a week, too.
i get up at 8:30 for 9am work. i'm a graduate student working in a lab, but i pretty much leave at 5pm on the dot except in unusual circumstances. i seriously don't understand how everyone out there including my supervisor sit around not even noticing that the clock struck 5pm and that it's freaking time to leave and develop your mind and spend time with your family and friends to be a healthy human. i don't understand how my supervisor is capable of leaving at 5:16 or 6:34 instead of 5:00pm. Get a life... watch the clock, get out, and do something!!! I don't know about you guys, but I'm extremely conscious about the time. If it's 4:53, I *know* it damn well and I don't want coworkers to schedule meetings or some other crap at that time - because you know what? I usually have a plan to catch a particular train at 5:12 or something, or plan to meet friends at 5:15, to go and enjoy my evening - every day I have as much a plan for my evening as I do for work. I leave at 5:00, and no later, unless it's planned in advance (like when work needs to be done, I'll plan to stay late another day and budget my time).
If people seriously worked 8 hours a day and no more, it would do society a lot more good, and we wouldn't need tricks like getting up at 5am to make people healthy, because people would have their evenings. What's up with some companies having work hours of 8:30am to 5:00pm? Thats ***** *****... don't try to squeeze more than the standard 8 hours out of employees. Work hours should be 8 to 4, 9 to 5, 7 to 3, 9/80 schedule, whatever.
The world needs to learn to relax a little. Especially people in scientific research like myself, who don't seem to stick to clocked hours very well. Seriously, if there is more work to do, as a matter of promoting wellness of people and creative minds of all ages, there should be I find it sad that researchers often work 12 hours a day. If that's the case, it means it's time to either hire more people to distribute the work, take a longer time to do the work, or simply abandon it. Forcing employees to work 9 hours a day is terrible.
I know a lot of you will say that I need to be passionate about a job. I am. But seriously, there is nothing in life that I can possibly like doing for more than 40 hours a week. Whether it's eating, travelling, talking with friends, playing games, researching, reading, watching movies, or anything else - there is NOTHING in this world - even my most favorite hobbies - that I enjoy doing for more than 40 hours.
Oh, and also, everyone should be taking a few weeks of vacation a year. It's healthy and makes sure people understand the whole world better. Excessive overtime should be banned. - oldhat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Where I live, traffic is terrible during the classic rush hours. The only way to deal is to go very early or late. Someday society will give up and accept different shift just o accommodate all the people. Day, swing, and night shifts. But not just for bakers and garbage men. I mean the whole deal.
And what's the deal with school in the morning? Didn't matter what time I went to bed, 8am was never good for me to learn *****. We can have a swing shift school, too! (and kids would fight for enrollment, too) - Blarbo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I get up at 4:30am every morning because of my work.
I hate it, I am not a morning person. - cam0man, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7it's hard to get up at 5am when i'm usually up to 3:30 drinking beers and smoking pot
- violentvinyl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"Success does not equate to comfort."
success: The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.
Sounds like comfort falls within that definittion to me.
Now if you meant you can't be wealthy, or famous and still wake up late, you're certainly entitled to your own foibles, but don't insist that the rest of us need to be uncomfortable to be succesful. - dpower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I meet these early risers in the office. Usually wired out of their heads on coffee. Work to live, not live to work.
I think I read a book by the same author. "How to kill your social life in 10 easy steps." - plnegative1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm so tired of blog posts. This article seriously is useless.
- Sharky35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5At no point does the author mention going to bed earlier....
This article was absolutely worthless. Just some yuppie tard telling the world why he's better than everyone else. - kkass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I tried moving my alarm clock across the room a few years ago. From doing doing this I learned 2 things. 1. It is much easier for me to see what time it is. 2. I have no issues with walking across the room to hit snooze and then climbing back into bed.
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