Dr. Matt Walker

So what's interesting about your chronotype

And by the way, people, if you want to find out your chronotype, if you want an actionable suggestion, you can just go online and you can search for something called, just type in chronotype MEQ.

And that stands for the Morningness Eveningness Questionnaire, MEQ.

Just type in chronotype MEQ, and you will see you can fill it out.

It takes three, four minutes, series of questions, and it will give you back a score.

And that will then bucket you into these different flavors and sort of say, okay.

I've tried all of these.

Well, let me ask you this question, because rather than doing the MEQ, there's a single question I normally ask and say, okay, Andrew, I now put you on a desert island.

Alone.

And alone, you've got nothing to wake up for, no electricity, no responsibilities, no nothing.

What time do you think your body would like to go to sleep and wake up?

And I say that specifically because if I ask you what time would you like to, you're still biased in your head by all of the trappings of society and this terrible bias towards morning types.

Do you think that naturally that's probably the regimen that you would do?

All day long.

And what's interesting about that is it works both ways.

So that malaise that you're speaking about

also happens for evening types who are forced to be morning types.

Unsympathetic.

No, I'm kidding.

Just kidding.