![]() These early-morning hours are key to managing her stress in a suboptimal academic job market. "Once you start looking at email, the whole day cascades into email responses and replying back and forth," she says. She can read journal articles and write pages before dealing with her teaching responsibilities. each day to work on a book on the history of religious politics in West Africa. Charlotte Walker-Said, a history postdoc at the University of Chicago, uses the hours between 6:00 and 9:00 a.m. You can crank things out novelist Anthony Trollope famously wrote, without fail, for a few hours each morning. After the food, they were supposed to work on "unsolvable" geometry puzzles. Some of the students could eat whatever they wanted while others could only eat the radishes. Specifically, radishes, chocolate chip cookies, and candy. They were then put into a room with food. In his book he highlights one famous experiment where students were asked to fast before coming into the lab. Roy Baumeister, author of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, has spent more time studying willpower and self-discipline than most. ![]() Most people find doing anything that requires self-discipline easier to do in the morning. ![]() As Gordo Byrn, a triathlon coach, once told me, "There's always a reason to skip a four o'clock workout, and it's going to be a good reason, too." ![]() At that point, emergencies had yet to form, and they would only have to shower once. People who were serious about exercise did it in the mornings. ![]()
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