Should You Be Waking Up At 5:00AM?
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- You might have seen videos or news articles about all the amazing benefits of waking up at 5am, 4am or anything in between.
Some of those benefits might include: being more productive, focused, motivated, happier etc..
That's complete rubbish and I'll explain why.
Getting up early won't make you more focused or productive. In fact, it could actually kill your productivity.
Just because some CEO of a company or a navy SEAL wakes up at 4am, it doesn't mean you should wake up at that time as well.
Today I'll explain why not everyone is suited to wake up that early, and why it's ok if you don't.
Then you can decide for yourself if you want to follow that advice.
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Wakes up at 5am -> opens UA-cam -> recommendation: «Should you be waking up at 5am?»
Me: Everything I do is being questioned 🤣😭
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Hahaha 😂
Haha, exactly the same thing happened with me.
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LMAO
I feel like this guy wakes up late
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It's a great feeling getting up early on the weekend and having everything done by 12pm to enjoy the rest of the day. Signed former night owl.
Tor Or you can get everything done at night(when early birds are asleep) and by the time you wake up at 12pm, you have the rest of the day to enjoy.😎
@@nimablooms that depends on your work though . Like for example if you are studying then you would prefer night hours when there's less disturbance.
@@nimablooms Well theres a other side to it - when you start your day early and finish everything by 12pm, you dont have this thing at the back of your mind saying you have work pending. It frees up your mind. Whereas someone who wakes up late and keeps work for the night, you always have this consciousness that things arent done.
This is me
@@randomrainbow8423 I prefer the early morning because there's no disruptions for studying lol
"You could wake up early and still be an unproductive loser."
A very real LOL moment.
I agree! If one makes their time truly useful, waking up earlier shifts my schedule to the left so I avoid a lot of distractions during my productive times.
Cannot help but to feel identified with that statement LOL
Hahahahaha @6:40
"After all you can still wake up early and be an unproductive loser"
So blunt lmao
i didnt get over that either LOL
@@vee5315 haha yeah same
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I didn’t like him calling me out like that!!
me who wakes up at 6: *tis true*
There's something about the darkness before dawn that feels magical. It allows more focus. Otherwise I agree!
thissss is 100%legittt💯💯
I started waking up early because I had a job 10-6, but I wanted to work on my personal projects. I tried doing them afterwards, but I was spent, so I couldn't do anything. Waking up at 5:30 though, I had 4.5 hours before work to do my projects.
Now the job is done, but I still wake up earlyish (i pushed one hour though, 6:30). For me, the advantage I noticed is that I get several hours of work before people start calling, email, or expecting me to be around.
I think we are been conditioned for the later hours to be spent doing less productive things, like watch TV, relax, etc. so if I wake up early and go to bed early I get more done without sacrificing sleep because I have fewer of those 'non-productive' hours.
Exactly! You summed it up perfectly for me. The later hours are natural waste hours. If you have less of them then you accordingly waste less time lol!
I always do sports at 8pm, and do housework after 10:30pm. Any personal project I use to do at night. I am completely not capable of doing that in the morning, so it really depends on what person you are.
@@DerTolleIgel
Fair enough. Maybe some of us are wired differently. After like 10pm it's time to wind down for me no matter what time I woke up.
I’m right there with ya, but for night owls, the evening isn’t “waste” hours. That’s when they start getting things done. They have the same experience with later hours that we do with earlier hours: uninterrupted time to focus.
@@simonelastname5182 Sleep from when you're back from school, say 5pm to 1am, and problem solved :-)
When I go to sleep early I still wake up late 😂
maybe you just don't want to wake up to what your are waking up to.....
Lazy Ass
Dileep Vidyadara no I naturally wake up late as well. It doesn’t make me lazy lmao
@@ender4344 yeah. I just love sleeping too much 😂
Me too same
"If you want to wake up early, you must go to sleep early"
Why has this never occurred to me before...
ROFL XD
The earlier I wake up, but more clear my head feels. The later, I’m all rushed. But, I also stay up a bit late, and can’t fall asleep
I’m just not productive in the middle of the day
Downright Clueless maybe have a siesta during your least productive hours?
Look at my suit I wish. School limits everything.
@@bagel2000 That's the thing - school! It uncompromisingly takes up such huge chunks of our day! I'll be doing a Bachelors where I really feel like I NEED the lectures, maybe not all of them but a good bit, so distance studying doesn't seem like a good idea… I wish I could tho, if I could do it online when _I_ find fit, on _my_ terms.
I am not either, so I have adjusted to when I am. You am what you am, so you might as well be what you am, cause you can't be what you ain't.
Finally! I'll send this to my father, he can't blame me being a night owl. Thanx!
It's so cute to hear not an illiterate, speedy speech with slang that I can't understand. I'm not a native English speaker (as you are, I think) and I'm glad to know that there are people who follows their grammar.
People who love self help need to watch your videos. Nobody explains the relativity of each habit or life skill as well as you. You help teach people it's all relative to yourself & just because it gave one person success doesn't mean it would work for you (while keeping the audience motivated ) I love your videos & you make it easy to reflect on oneself & take action. Thank you!
Yes! These videos have helped me greatly with getting my life together even with depression
the main difference for me is the sequence of events. when I wake up early, and it's quiet that's when I can potentially do productive work. when I wake up late and sleep late, late hours are when it's quiet and potentially do productive work. however at night, even though it is as quiet as it is in the morning, I've already spent the whole day doing other stuff, and my mind just wants to relax and rest. so I end up doing more non-productive stuff. it's difficult for me to engage with productive activities like studying, writing, working on projects right up to bedtime, and then also expect good sleep when my brain has been active up to that point. this is my main reason why I still try to get up earlier and earlier, even though my natural tendencies are like those of a night owl.
Same
Exactly
I was an early bird when I was younger (7 years old and above) because school starts early like before 7am, but when I became an adult (and until now), I became a night owl. I notice that I'm much more productive at night and in the wee hours of the morning. There are times when I tried to be an early bird again, but it's just too hard. Most of the time, I get sleepy in the afternoon (afternoon slump) and I tend to nap longer than I should lol so I'm not productive
P.S. I love this video because it speaks for night owls especially when our parents get mad at us for sleeping late and waking up late. This is a way for them to understand us
This is definatly one of my new favorite channels! The content is on point! 💪🏾
The example of 9-5 and 1-9 being the same changed my whole view. I always thrived my best sleeping at 1 and waking up at 9 but everyone told me it was unnatural. After years i have finally found something to back it up. Thank you!
I wake up feeling so groggy and unenergized if I wake after the sun begins to rise. I feel so much better waking up between 5:30-6:00 am and its been like that since I was like 10 years old.
I tried to experiment to do both. I was ok with both. Found out it’s all about habits. Found out as well that you are ok with 6 hours of sleep and ok with more than that. Body copes. But then I’d say that waking up early is still the best. The key however is what you do with your extra hours. So unless you have a valid reason to not wake up early, you should be awake early. I know a lot of very old people, who sleep not even 6 hours their entire lives, but still they are healthy and happy and I know a lot of very old people too who sleep more than 5 hours their entire lives, but still they are healthy and happy too. It‘s ain’t that sleep that shortened life, it’s usually how you are living your life.
I watch all my YT video at 2X and he has the perfect voice and rhythm for 2X. Glad i found this fun and informative channel.
My sleep cycle tends to follow the sun. In the summer, it's nigh impossible for me to sleep past 5, but in the winter months, I can barely get up around 7
Me too!
Thank you so much!The quality of videos you put on this channel is commendable!I was "enlightened" literally,coz I used believe that waking up early was the Only way to be successful!will share this one!
I am a Night Owl an and Early riser lol . I agree EVERYONE is different. It doesn't matter if I go to bed at 9p.m or 2 a.m it's very difficult for me to sleep more than 6hours. I actually feel awful physically when I sleep longer. My Parents and Grand parents were the same way and loved into their 80's and 90's . My siblings and my kids are all pretty much the same way.
Same here feel like more than 6 ruins my day and my dad is the one who recommended 6 as he said if he has more he feels crap so i tried that kos i was feeling tired and shit but couldnt work out y as i was having plenty of sleep and funnily enuf 6 is perfect for me too :)
That's exactly how it should be. No fixed hours. Rest well. Quality over quantity.
I learnt many things and have overall view of early waking up from this video. It's really helpful. Thanks for making this.
Lovable video ! It helps demystify a topic I was bothered a lot and removes all night owl’s guilt altogether. Thank you !
Thank you again for this simple reminder but a severe issue in our society nowadays!
Thank you! Finally someone understands me! I wake up very very late and people think I’m lazy, but I go to bed so late, and get all my responsibilities done at night!
I really like the opening music and ur voice..its soothing. Great videos...one of the best channel on youtube
This video is incredibly amazing.... After a long search in the internet... U gave us the perfect answer.. since I can't be productive at the early morning but just during the daytime till the midnight... As u said..so the situation varies from one person to another
سورة النبأ
78:9
وَجَعَلْنَا نَوْمَكُمْ سُبَاتًا
And made your sleep [a means for] rest
- Saheeh International
78:10
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا
And made the night as clothing.
- Saheeh International
78:11
وَجَعَلْنَا ٱلنَّهَارَ مَعَاشًا
And made the day for livelihood.
- Saheeh International
I really liked this video and I agree with a lot of points (espacially the one with the shifted sleep rythm of teenagers), however there is one thing I have to mention:
There is the hormone “Melatonin“ which almost exclusively gets produced between 10PM and 2AM. If you sleep during that time, your sleep quality is significantly better than if you dont sleep during that time (If you want a more detailed explanation, search up “what I have learned sleep“ on UA-cam, that guy made a very good video on the topic).
This means that sleeping from 10PM to 5AM (7 hours) will always be healthier and better than sleeping from 2AM to 9AM, even though its the same amount of sleep (i am pretty sure everyone already had that experience where you wake up very late and you feel completely demolished even though you slept like 8-9 hours). Thus lurks do have an advantage over night owls as their sleep tends to be more “effective“ (better sleep quality) and because of that they have more energy over the day and have to sleep less in total as night owls have to make up for the missing Melatonin.
Otherwise very nice video, looking forward to more content =)
Yes, melatonin as well as human growth hormone which is released during those hours as well. To my understanding, in general, it is healthier to be asleep by 10pm and through the 3am hour for the body to do its repair work and to feel optimal. I have delayed sleep phase, which made me believe my entire life that I was a night owl because I'd "get my second wind", it was just me pushing past my natural sleepiness which was around 8pm (too early when you have homework and things to get done) and not going to bed when I should so then my body would release wakeful hormones, so it's hard for me to get to bed on time, but I feel so much better and am more productive when I go to bed early and wake up early. In order to do this though, I have to do several things religiously during the day or else I won't get sleepy at the right time of night: wake up at my usual early time regardless whether I "need" to or not (optimally 4:30-5am), get plenty of bright light first thing in the morning, get plenty of exercise early in the day, avoid caffeine after noon, eat a light meal in the evening, dim the lights by mid evening and start my bedtime prep and hygiene (wash face, brush teeth, make a to do list and get things ready for next day, etc) at least an hour before my early bedtime (optimally 9:30-10). This routine helps my body to stay on track but it's not always easy to follow all of the steps everyday and things go awry, so I do my best.
That's why,Ayurveda(ancient Indian medicinal branch)says to sleep by 10 pm.
Great channel! I truly wish more of this type of information would be taught in schools.
I love this video. For a very long time I was living in an illusion that I should be able to suppress my needs to achieve my goals. Luckily, nowadays I try to take care of myself more. Your health is just too important.
This is the video i just NEED now! Thank you! 👏👏👏
Great Video. A lot of people wake up early (by 4:00am) in order to get to the side of town where their office is - Only few of them are successful.
Wake up time has very little to do with whether you succeed or not
I really love how you demystify unhelpful self help tips.
Finally someone is giving the realistic answer thank you🙏☺
I sleep early and wake up early so I can have more quiet moments to myself. The house could get busy when everyone is awake at the same time. Thank you for this video, I love the message. :)
I love to wake up at 5 am it gives me plenty of time to nap from 8 am until 12 midday. I don't know why more people don't develop this habit.
I’m a “I wake up whenever I’ve slept 8 hours” bird. Often this looks like going to bed at around 12 and waking up at 8. My brain just turns on after 8 hours asleep 🤔
thanks so much... I just needed to hear that and it motivated me more
I'd like to aim for 7:30 am. This was great information!
Mike has the same amount of knowledge as I do when it comes to math! If I wake up at 5 am I'll have 4 extra hours! 🥳 🤣
Great video,personally I prefer to wake up at 8am but this is a realistic approach to this !
I used to stay up late and get up in just enough time to get to work on time. These days I go to bed earlier and wake up earlier. That I've been awake for 3 hours before going to work and had a chance to reflect and think my day through in peace has made all the difference for me. I will always be an advocate for early rising. And sleeping enough.
I agree. Yes some of us are night owls but unfortunately so much happens earlier in the day that you end up scrambling more or being at an disadvantage throughout the day as compared to if you got up early.
I too used to go to bed late and wake up late. But after seeing articles on going to bed early and waking up early, I started doing so myself. They key to changing my cycle was to make sure I wake up early and stay awake, that way I'm too tired to stay up too late. Waking up early has helped my productivity. I go out for an early jog or walk. I do some reading. Right now I'm learning to use Blender through tutorials. All these things, before I go to work. And by the time I get to work, I'm energized and ready to get lots of work done. This is better than when I used to be a "night owl" in which I would stay up late and do nothing, wake up late and immediately go to work and get to work sleepy. I generally like videos by Better Than Yesterday, but I feel that going to bed early and waking up early is a great way to be productive. I no longer feel like there's such thing as a night owl, just people who aren't motivated to go to bed early.
@@RealCoachMustafa I disagree with you. I am in the lucky position, that I can start pretty late at work as we have no fixed working hours (well there are always meetings, so there is no absolute freedom). Anyway, I also thought it would be better to get up earlier. Problem is, if I go the bed earlier I cannot sleep through. I will wake up after 3-4 hours, being awake all night and totally tired the whole day. I tried for years and always came to that point after some time. Now I just accepted my natural sleeping rhythm and am happy with it.
My daughter had a college schedule when she was 15 in high school. She never got enough sleep. I felt so much empathy for her. I never pushed her but she tended to push herself. As a lifetime insomniac, I know how important sleep is. I always study every thing I see about sleep. I have learned so much and now usually am able to sleep. I hate it when they change the time, because the schedule is everything.
In my opinion, you are spot on. On a personal level, I find I do best if I vary my sleep patterns. Not every day, but about once every two to three months. Work the way you like, and like the work you do.... Much easier to enjoy the day. No guarantee it will be a perfect day every day, but overall, at least for me, it greatly increases the odds in my favor. Best of luck to you.....
This is the most helpful channel on UA-cam
I had no idea about the sleep shift with teenagers. Thank you.
Thank you for a life changing information. I am night owl since birth and this video will help reassuring myself and people around me that what I have been doing was not entirely wrong.
One of the most important videos on UA-cam because sleep is so important its crazy how important it is and for me I sleep crazy long everyday like seriously I sleep 12-14 hours everyday like I go to sleep between 10-11pm and I wake up usually at 11:30am - 12:00pm everyday but even on weekends where I work 12 hour shifts 8am-8pm I still sleep 9+ hours for ex: I go to sleep between 9-10pm and I wake up at 7am. One thing I don't mess with is my sleep! I love my sleep so much and alot of it. Like literally has to be at least 8-9 hours of sleep minimum for me to feel good and function properly
Another video about me! I love being the main character! Thanks!
Im a night owl forced to be an early bird where I have to wake up at 5am and its rough.
When my coworker comes to me to chitchat. I feel like Im a lizard that has to warm up under the sun first.
Then I experience bouts of dizziness, lethargy and lack of focus that sometimes an hour and a half gets wasted.
I will say, i have more time in the day and whats cool is that I get to avoid traffic. So for me coming to work this early benefits me but its annoying.
Great video. I’m an early bird, in bed at 10, up between 4:30 and 5:00, and don’t use an alarm. But that came by itself as I reached my mid-40’s, not as a younger man.
thank you for this great video
This mans videos have changed my life. Jesus. Thank you!
The first not true video i watch in your channel , waking up early always is the best choice , i am night owl but always my productively super high when i wake up early 3 am till 10 or 9 and i take nap at 12.5 for 25 minutes
I love your stuff! Some more than others, but it’s well done. I’d love to see some some political/social/economic debate between two or more characters such as socialism, capitalism, communism with a devils advocate causing trouble. Or the GND v the Republican talking points. Or the Koch corp. or the Amazon animals vs loggers, cattle ranchers. Etc. It could be funny. You could be a new John Stewart!
love this. Only thing though that was missing.. was the fact that to get done alot of things we need to get done, like going to APPOINTMENTS; such as doctors apts. meetings, going to the bank, getting your drivers license renewed..etc, all happen during the daytime/early times and only on weekdays. So if your a true night owl, where 9am wake up would be EARLY for you, it sucks.
i dont know who you are jut your videos makes me who I am right now, I turn to be the best version og myself thanks to you. I just, I dont know how to thank you.. I hope your life is full of happiness and youve got everything you need. God bless you
Great video.Thanks a lot
Your videos are great, very informative and positive.
Tha you
This is a lovely video and it did send me to sleep for a while
And don´t get me started about when you have a job whose shifts rotate weekly :( You have to be a shapeshifter to adapt your sleep patrons... or, as in my case, win a permanent set of eye bags :P
So I'm the typ of guy who wakes up early but has nothing to do so I just go back to sleep
I like this channel. I've noticed that my sleep schedule has changed throughout my life. I'm 67. I used to like to sleep late, but now I tend to pop awake at 7:30 feeling good.
I've always wondered why I feel sleepy when I wake up early and I always tried to compensate the sleep time which I missed... Thanks for the video guess I'm a night person..
Thank goodness that someone thinks like me! I always struggle with everyone make them see this, and it's like a losing battle to me
Great video! Thanks mate!
I'm a night owl but when I wake up early I feel energised for some reason.
My sleep cycle slips the other way, I keep getting up earlier and being sleepy earlier until Im falling asleep at 6PM and waking up at 2 am...
Thank you very much for this video :)
Wonderful message. :) thanks from a passionate night owl!
Useful video! thanks.
Best article on sleep and rising time on the internet
Thanks For This Man ... Its Currently 6:32 In The Morning .. Just Had An amazing Sleep At Night .. But I Still Recover Better When I Sleep Till 9 as a 19 year old
I needed this
I go to bed at 2 and wake up at 10. I have been trying to go to bed earlier but then I sleep in. I am so glad to see this
Ur channel is criminally underrated 😘
So glad you made this video so sick of people saying waking up early gives you more time lol and i happen to wake up very early. Still have the same time as everyone else
This make me feel better that I am not lazy😊
well i go to sleep at 5am so it would probably be little bit of a challenge to turn it around
I personally sleep at 10 and wake up at 3 and it has changed my life I have seen so much improvement in my mind body and overall mood
I love sleep. I'm a night owl. It feels very natural to me... Really enjoying this channel by the way.
That is the video I am looking for for years. I am absolutely a night owl, and thanks to this video I won't blame myself for this any more :)
one point missed here: most people dont do anything productive after 9pm, so shifting your sleep schedule a few hourse earlier, might convert these late hours into productive hours.
Too much importance of inefficient sleep 👏👏👏👏
I have a question, how do you make these animations? (Witch application?)
I appreciate it 😀
I started tracking my sleep with Apple Watch and a sleep app, and found that I was getting most of my REM sleep after 4am. No wonder I was so groggy when I tried to get up early. It is an absolute myth that getting up at 5am is good for everyone. It depends on your unique sleep cycle. Those of us who can’t need to focus instead on how to be more productive later at night.
I was never an "early riser" ...as a matter of fact I was a "night owl" for good 20 years of my life - this changed once I made myself change! It is the same with being fat and lazy (those can be changed too).
Instead of going to bed 1am, now I do 8.30pm...instad of just winging it, now I have my whole day planned to miniscule detail (I always dreaded this reality - only to realize that having complete control over your activities and habbits is the only way to freedom...otherwise you're a slave to your body/feelings and lesser desires).
If you're not in charge and behind the wheel, it is your body and you act on the impulses and thoughts generated spontaniously by the animal your mind occupies. You and your body might have completely opposing ideas of what is good for you (generally the case).
So, if you want to be a night owl and lose out on health maintaining hormones,develop chronic disease ...sure, keep telling yourself you're a night owl.
Otherwise just shut that voice and start getting up 4am (there's a milion great books on what habbits to adopt, behaviours,mind hygiene,excercise,nutrition, etc etc).
Sure it takes time and effort (but you only have one life, and if you don't think it is worth it...if you don't think that you are worth it then why even keeping it going,right? So get your self together and start working on becoming a better version of yourself - the best version of yourself that you can be)
Or don't, it's your life...just don't expect sympathies if you chose not to.
How My Day Goes
Sleep At 1 AM ( Or 2 AM)
Wakes Up At 6:30 AM
In School-> I Sleep A Lot
I'm Prime At Sunset
It's Where I Am Energyzed
i was already relieved when he said "ur not lazy for waking up late" but then i heard "ur lazy if u procrastinate" damn i know will get back to u tomorrow
Midnight- middle of the night.
Some were night owls due to the need to have watch over our social group some 100 thousand years ago.
People often sleep more than 8 hours a night which is bad for our health, we’re just lazy failing to realise how finite our existence is.
This is so obvious yet its important to bring awarenes because of the modern thrend of early birds
My housemate & I are a perfect example of these differences. I actually felt better when I changed my sleep/wake times from 9p/5a to 8p/4a. I’m certainly a perfectly productive individual, but not above average in any way.
My housemate is an artist and a night owl. Her sleep/wake times are more like 2a/10a. I have never known a more productive person in my life. “Relaxing” is anathema to her. She is always working on something. I’m a lazy slob by comparison, but there definitely tends to be a perception in society that favors people like me as the productive, hardworking types. It’s total bs.
thanks for explaining this , now i know 😀
I have miss classes because I wake up exhausted at 8 am.
I never once in my life met someone which goes to sleep at 9:00PM
This is really cool and eyeopening 👍, if only theres Indonesian sub, i would gladly sharing this video to my Indonesian friends 😁
It really makes a hugh diffrent what you are used to.
So glad I watched this video. I was actually trying to wake up at 5:00 AM this morning but slept until 9 :)
With children going to school and work starting around 9am, night owls face difficulty managing their time during the day. Regular meditation have the potential to cut down on the total time needed for sleep.