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I don’t know where the excess energy came from, but my mother insists that it’s the unfortunate consequence of eating candy bars and sugar cereals. Under strict orders to be in bed by 9:30, I would sneak downstairs and hide behind the couch, listening to Johnny Carson and praying that my parents wouldn’t turn around to discover me. This nasty habit of staying up until the wee hours of the night began during childhood. As far as I can tell, I’m just as healthy and twice as happy for it. And worst of all, it’s a needless waste of time.
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To me, sleep is like being dead for eight hours every night. I admit that I’m a creature of the night with nearly no respect for the semi-comatose state which most of us call sleep. “My parents are convinced that they’ve raised an owl, not a 17-year-old daughter. It’s not long, actually.ĭUCKWORTH: Alright. I was looking at her ratings, and I was like, “How did I even get into school?”ĭUCKWORTH: So, you know what my application essay was entitled? It was called “Confessions of a Teenage Owl.” And I can read you parts of it. I thought it would be really cool for me to see what I had written in my college applications.ĭUCKWORTH: Well, first I’ll say that my guidance counselor didn’t think much of me. And you did this willingly?ĭUBNER: You weren’t blackmailed into it, or someone wasn’t questioning whether you actually went to college?ĭUCKWORTH: No, no, no. Did you know that, for many schools, you can literally email the registrar and ask them for your own college application?ĭUBNER: I did not. But, you know, I have to hesitate here, because I ordered my college application recently. So, I rarely get up with my alarm, which is set for 7:30. It’s usually the first rays of dawn, and sometimes before then. I am somebody who wakes up before Alexa tells me to. You know, you call them “owls” and “larks.” You have correctly pegged me, Stephen, as a lark. Guessing my “chronotype.” And that is the fancy word, by the way, for your quote-unquote “natural clock.”ĭUCKWORTH: Are you somebody who naturally starts to become alert early in the morning, or are you somebody whose chronotype is later. I think you are a relatively early bird, yes?ĭUCKWORTH: Hm. I like how she surrounds a question with a bunch more questions - which I think is such a good practice.ĭUBNER: Why don’t we start with her last question first. And here, Abby writes, “So my question is: Do early birds really end up doing better? And is this because people who want to get up early are naturally proactive, or because people are more productive in the morning? And which is each of you?”ĭUBNER: I love Abby’s questions. We’re not going to count this weird second-mouse-cheese-trap thing against Abby.ĭUCKWORTH: No. I think the idea is that the late-sleeping mouse, who, like, gets up around 11 or something, gets the cheese after the first mouse gets snapped.ĭUBNER: Let’s make a pact right now. The idea is that the first mouse gets killed in the mouse trap?ĭUCKWORTH: Yeah. Quote: “The early bird gets the worm, but it’s the second mouse who gets the cheese,” unquote.ĭUBNER: So, wait. You know: “Early bird gets the worm.” I’ve recently heard a new version of this. I have always felt like our society favored early risers.
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Let me read you Abby’s question.ĭUCKWORTH: Abby writes, “Dear Angela and Steven. But I usually do wake up quite early - between 5 and 5:30, which - to me that’s just normal.ĭUCKWORTH: No, no, no. So, sometimes I will sleep in until, you know, 6:30 or 7, which feels so luxuriantly criminal. Although, I’m trying now to get more sleep. You wake up at some ridiculously early single-digit number, yes?ĭUBNER: I have been a very early riser for the vast majority of my life. We don’t always record in the mornings, we should say.ĭUCKWORTH: We don’t, but as an early riser, which I know you to be, I kind of knew you’d be awake for it. Are you awake enough to hear it? Because it’s - it’s morning.ĭUBNER: It is morning.
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Today on the show: Does society favor early birds over night owls?ĭUBNER: Well, you’re taking a bird metaphor that probably has nothing to do with actual people.ĭUCKWORTH: Stephen, we have an email from a listener named Abby, and I’d like to read it to you. DUCKWORTH: I don’t know where the excess energy came from, but my mother insists that it’s the unfortunate consequence of eating candy bars and sugar cereals.ĭUCKWORTH + DUBNER: And you’re listening to No Stupid Questions.