Three Smart Things About Sleeping Late
Night owls are more creative. Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, evening people almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.
Rising early is stressful. The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7am, so if you get up then you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! You’ll wake up feeling less like Burt, more like Ernie.
— Daniel Dumas in “Three Smart Things About Sleeping Late”, Wired, January 2009
