Jemma Spike

That's not how I am programmed.

You have to figure out how you are programmed.

Researchers in 2021 tested participants on this with a series of cognitive tasks, and they found that learning, memory, attention, they were all significantly better when people

worked during their preferred time of day a separate meta-analysis looked at over 7 000 evening people and morning people and they also looked at what they called their diurnal preferences and a diurnal preference is basically when you prefer to be awake versus asleep and what they found was that when they let people naturally work during their preferred time

their cognitive ability, their academic achievement, their memory, their problem solving, all improved.

Even in school children, even in little tiny school children, this study even actually it has a self-report questionnaire you can take.

What is the study called?

I think it's called Chronotype Cognitive Abilities and Academic Achievement

uh from 2011 if you want to look it up and in like the appendix they'll have this so you can figure out what your diurnal preference is when the best time of day is for you i think you probably already know i think it's the time when you feel least tired doing work

Whether that is 1am or 1pm.

I think a crucial step to this is also being okay with not being productive when everyone else is being.

A lot of studying, at least I found, was sometimes appearance-based, especially when you're in a big college or in a big high school or in a big uni.

And

So sometimes like that there was pressure to sort of appear like you were busy even if you weren't getting anything done.

So again with this like body clock method if you know you can get seven hours of work done in four hours if you start at 1 a.m.

You don't need to be studying at 9am.

Take the morning off.

Remember, efficiency is personal.

It's not externally dictated.

It's incredibly individualized.