time for waking up
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There’s a gap between stop sleeping and start doing something useful.
The gap varies depend on one’s routine, biology, responsibility(children, care), and definition of something useful.
Usually, this gap would be somewhere around 1 hour to 2 hours1, if define its end at start meaningful work such as making plan for the day.
1. Why take the time
In my experience, it is not likely one could enjoy any work immediately after waking for an extended period. One of the following would happen:
- gut discomfort
- stupidity
- laziness, staticity in mind and body
- shortened breath
Meditation, which is a shortcut to solve all the above, is not available at a short period (10,15 minutes) after waking, as you would just fall sleep, or get headache from catching cold.
Therefore, there’s no better solution than just wonder around and take the time to wake up gradually.
2. What to do
Personal hygiene, simple chore, hydration, breakfast if you do that, waking up children, tidying, etc.
Things that do not need thinking but takes time to be done.
3. What to not do
Social media, read to react, read to remember, game where you don’t move physically, focus.
Things that make you static or require some thinking.
Backlinks
old index
(Mindset and lifestyle - useful stuff)
- ditch volume control
- attention counts
- think of reward
- growth mindset
- dopamine schedule
- low information diet
- attending and slipping
- solidify = repetition
- human cycle
- Quality vs. Duration
- one-shot job
- equality as in shared access
- physical mental environment
- wired
- time for waking up
- graph and text as primitive actions in state space of ideas
- output patterns as primitive for understanding
- states
life
(Be honest and truthful - facts and observations)
- dopamine schedule
- time for waking up
- physical mental environment
- wired
- attending and slipping
- human cycle
- Quality vs. Duration
- I use lifestyle script to model my lifestyle. current life script holds the current iteration
- skepticism is a lifestyle, and I really like it
Footnotes:
so, if you wake up at 7, it is likely that you start doing some meaningful work earliest at 9.