{"id":5862,"date":"2015-03-21T04:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=5862"},"modified":"2015-03-21T04:39:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:39:32","slug":"the-time-you-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2015\/03\/21\/the-time-you-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time You Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/sunrise-over-lake.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5863\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/sunrise-over-lake.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over a lake\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/sunrise-over-lake.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/sunrise-over-lake-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s pretty easy to go online and find articles saying that if you get up early, <a title=\"Early Risers and Happier, Healthier, and More Productive than Night Owls\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/wired-success\/201208\/early-risers-are-happier-healthier-and-more-productive-night-owls\">you&#8217;re better off than those who stay up late<\/a>. (I started writing this at 4:18 a.m. on a Saturday morning.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also pretty easy to go online and find articles saying that if you stay up late, <a title=\"Why Night Owls are More Intelligent than Morning Larks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-scientific-fundamentalist\/201005\/why-night-owls-are-more-intelligent-morning-larks\">your brain hums with supernatural intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing: if you display your worth against others [at least in part] based on what an article says, there&#8217;s something sad about that.<\/p>\n<p>I can show you studies and and old letters saying some of the best writers ever woke up early. But then&#8230;you could easily come back showing me studies and letters saying the best writers stayed up late.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, as I begin the day, somebody who wrote some great stuff last night is getting ready to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>The time you work doesn&#8217;t matter &#8212; what matters is what you do with the hours you keep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/moonrise-behind-tree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5864\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/moonrise-behind-tree.jpg\" alt=\"Moonrise behind a tree\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/moonrise-behind-tree.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/moonrise-behind-tree-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Finished at 4:39 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s pretty easy to go online and find articles saying that if you get up early, you&#8217;re better off than those who stay up late. (I started writing this at 4:18 a.m. on a Saturday morning.) It&#8217;s also pretty easy to go online and find articles saying that if you stay up late, your brain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5866,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5862\/revisions\/5866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}