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Discussion on: The Power of Waking Up at 4:00 AM

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Philip Riecks

Nice read. Personally, I established the habit to get up at 5:00 AM and dedicate at least one hour to learn/read in the morning during the last year. While establishing this habit I tracked it using GitHub and made at least one commit every day. (you can read more about it here: medium.com/@rieckpil/30-minutes-ev...)

I can recommend to never reduce the time spent sleeping and rather adjust your schedule to get to bed at 9 - 10pm. Read this excellent book about sleep first if you are more interested: rieckpil.de/p/why-we-sleep

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Robin Kretzschmar

Your comment has an important point that the author is missing in my opinion: Adjusting the schedule to get up early is the key and not to reduce the time you spend sleeping!

Very important because most people jump right into getting up early and try to keep it up until it becomes a habit and then they find themselves constantly tired, burned out, caffeine addicted.

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Bolton • Edited

@darksmile92 Thanks for your comment. I also agree with @rieckpil on the point of adjusting your schedule appropriately to meet your needs. I apologize for missing out on that important aspect.

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Alex Fedorov

You can still edit the article to clarify that bit ;)

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Robin Kretzschmar

@boltc0rt3z don't apologize, this is the perfect environment to start discussions and come to new conclusions! :)
One cannot always cover all facets of a topic.
As @waterlink said, you can edit your article anytime, if you like to.