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No, You’re Not Expected To Wake Up At 5 AM — Quit Toxic Productivity
Don’t fall for the toxic productivity.
I see it a lot on Twitter and Instagram, motivational posts that guarantee you happiness and productivity if you start waking up at 5 AM and take cold showers every day.
It feels like a checklist that everybody’s trying to complete.
I’m sorry to ruin it for you, but waking up at 5 am doesn’t make you any more productive.
Additionally, waking up that early makes me feel miserable, not happy.
We’re Not All Morning People, Only Some Of Us Are
Waking up early is a business model, and it’s about productivity.
We’ve been told that it’s good for us to wake up early and go to bed around the clock of 10/11 — doesn’t work for me.
I’m productive when it gets dark.
Selling you courses about how you should live your life are popular among young people, especially now that a lot of people are doing some research about their (mental) health.
There’s a market for that, but what they don’t tell you is that every human body works differently — it’s not that hard to understand.
