Life Hacks Quotes

For most of us, those sharp-minded analytic capacities peak in the late morning or around noon.

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Alertness and energy levels, which climb in the morning and reach their apex around noon, tend to plummet during the afternoons.

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What ultimately matters, then, is that type, task, and time align—what social scientists call "the synchrony effect."

In short, all of us experience the day in three stages—a peak, a trough, and a rebound. And about three-quarters of us (larks and third birds) experience it in that order. But about one in four people, those whose genes or age make them night owls, experience the day in something closer to the reverse order—recovery, trough, peak.

High performers work for fifty-two minutes and then break for seventeen minutes.