2022-04-03
31 分钟How have Angie’s views on sleep changed since she wrote her Harvard application essay? Would starting high school later in the day be worth $8.6 billion? And what should you do if your chronotype doesn’t fit the way society is structured?
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.
I'm Angela Duckworth.
I'm Steven Dubner, and you're listening to.
No stupid questions today on the show.
Does society favor early birds over night owls?
Well, you're taking a bird metaphor that probably has nothing to do with actual people.
Steven, we have an email from a listener named Abby, and I'd like to read it to you.
Are you awake enough to hear it?
Because it's morning.
It is morning.
We don't always record in the mornings.
We should say we don't.
But as an early riser, which I know you to be, I kind of knew you'd be awake for it.
You wake up at some ridiculously early single digit number.
Yes.
I have been a very early riser for the vast majority of my life, although I'm trying now to get more sleep.
So sometimes I will sleep in until, you know, 630 or seven, which feels so luxuriantly criminal.
But I usually do wake up quite early, between five and 530, which to me, that's just normal.
That is really early.
Yeah.