@@journalologyandcoofficial not at all man, dad bod is totally different, this man's physique was wayy better and just another 3-4 pounds away from being shredded
@@journalologyandcoofficial XD thats a whole new thing now lol this gave me another perspective, i just assumed people though a person with less visible abs and full developed chest in a dad bod
What you said at 12:49 is so poignant. All of my passions and creativity were formed out of NOT doing what I was told or expected to do... 20 years later and I still treat my creativity the same! The life of a RUclipsr also sort of encourages that GET IT DONE LAST MINUTE AND AS FAST AS POSSIBLE mentality so ever since being a RUclipsr it has actually not helped inform the more structured lifestyle LOL
Loved everything about this video and experiment. Not everyone needs a 5am morning routine to be productive or successful. That's such a toxic notion that's being pushed around. Thanks for showing a balanced perspective!
I feel it's weird how this video seemingly still buys into the idea that being a night owl means wasting your time in the morning instead of just shifting your time. Like you don't need to get up slowly if you get up late. You can still have a routine just at a different time. The whole idea that you have "all this time" in the morning if you get up early has always weirded me out so much as if people don't know how time works and just totally ignore that if you sleep the same length of time, you will have the same awake time regardless of when it is.
@Ana Carolina Sussel I do it too and I don't have either of those diagnosis. I think it's human to tend to procrastinate and find something else to do
I can SO relate to Sara. I wake up late, without an alarm. Loiter around, casually ease into the day, and then wind up working late into the night when I find I have the most focus. I pursued self employment almost exclusively for the ability to do this. I was a complete zombie my entire time in school and I could not keep living like that.
Your comment makes me want to pursue self employment too 😭😭. I am so productive at night, but I feel like a latecomer at school and now work just because I'm not myself in the morning 😴😴
I’m so glad you did this one, I’m not a morning person AT ALL and I always feel like the rest of the world makes me feel guilty or lazy for not being able to get up early and be productive. I’m so much like Sara in the way my natural sleep and work habits are, nice to know I’m not alone haha
I’m a morning person through and through, but I never understood the flack early birds give the night owls. Early birds are their most productive in the morning. Night owls are most productive in the evenings. Same system, different times. For example: “I got so much done before most people are out of bed.” Yes, but while you were in bed going to sleep, the night owls were just getting started. They could say to the morning person “hey look, I got so much done while you were sleeping.”
@@Bethany-fo6lt thank you. Means a lot. I hate how the whole world seems to always bash us but we can't help it. Even after 8 hours of sleep, when I have to wake up at 06:00 I feel like crap and I'm 90% useless fpr the next 6 hours. That would be the same as me bashing others for feeling crap at 01:00 in the night while I feel energetic
Oh this is good stuff. I’m a night owl who - left to my own devices - would go to bed between 2-3am and wake up around 10-11am. It takes me forever to wake up. Primary school was a symphony of teachers complaining about me not being attentive at the start of the day (when classes started as early as 7.50am). In this regard, being able to work from home has been a total godsend.
Even when WFH i can't, i usually wake up for 9am daily meetings at 8:50am and go back to bed for anothe hour right after lol, but in total yes it 's been a absolute godsend
Your schedule is exactly mine! I tried for DECADES to force my body into an "early bird" schedule, but that isn't how I am most productive naturally. (Also, my school started at 7:20am and it was torture)
And there's me who just won't sleep even if I'm tired. Idk it's just so hard for me to fall asleep. Sometimes I just can't stand the process of trying to fall asleep so I go online again. It's 8.15 am here and I haven't sleep since yesterday (I woke up at around 1pm yesterday. Still tired af)
Thank you so much for portraying late start/late night in a positive light! I've tried for so long to wake up early, and I can do it, but I didn't realise at what cost until recently. I've actually pushed my night until later for practical reasons (flatmates in the bathroom anyone?) and ended up sleeping less overall and feeling more refreshed when waking up. And I shed some of the guilt I had about waking up late, and I feel lighter as a result! Also, the willpower that I was using for waking up early and having a good routine (working out, journaling, etc) is now available for other things. No more fighting each morning only to be tired and depleted for the rest of the day! What a difference it can make!
Night owl gang!!! I sleep at 10AM and start doing on my creative work from 8PM till 8AM. I love the quietness of the night and the bird song in the morning. Everything is so relaxing
Yeah, that's really good but on the other hand when you want to go travel or meeting with your friends maybe it will be hard to create time for that. For example even going to a market will be a problem (not a major one but little one). But if it's possible to create a really good home atmosphere and really good night owl people that would be awesome also.
@@prinniapuff i’m a night owl and wish i wasn’t. when the birds start chirping it drives me NUTS and reminds me that i’m up way too late every morning 😭
@Mustafa Umut Güven for me I go to the market in the early morning for food and as for friends, they're usually not going to be free until night anyway ;)
@@madiisuun ugh same. I was still awake at 5:30 this morning and I could see the sun come up and birds singing and it made it so much harder to fall asleep especially since I have a huge window that my bed faces 😭
I’m a night owl and have struggled with the judgement that comes with not wanting to operate on everyone else’s schedule. I’ve also put a lot of shame and pressure on myself, and felt like I just lacked discipline for not being able to adhere to the routines you see all over the internet. Learning about chronotypes was so validating. Being in a remote job with a more flexible schedule has also been a game changer. Routine and structure can be super valuable, especially as a chronic procrastinator like Sara, but being able to build a routine that works with my natural schedule not against makes all the difference.
Excellent. I often take for granted why Matt’s videos excel beyond the rest of self development RUclips. He doesn’t tell you what to do with your life. He inspires you and gives you the information to figure it out for yourself
This is sooo timely. Ever since I've watched your videos, I developed a routine for myself that actually works. But life happens, you lose your job, broken relationships, familial obligations and etc. I've been a morning person, or at least a daytime person. Right now I'm applying for a Virtual Assistant job that would affect my circadian rhythm. I'm from the Philippines and the work schedule that I'm about to venture into would use the Pacific Standard Time, 8am to 4pm. Which would be 11pm-7am in my country. Just wanted to appreciate this video for differentiating #MorningPeople and #NightOwls. 💙
Thank you for making this video! I love your productivity and experiment content, but I am definitely a night owl. I ate breakfast at 1pm while I watched this. I think this is the first time I've seen a creator share a routine that is closer to mine! I work evening shifts, so there are definitely jobs in society where night owls can thrive. Schools and remote or office jobs should definitely offer more options though.
I appreciate this video so much. I used to feel so much guilt for staying up late and getting up late. I felt like it was morally bad of me even though I was getting a fair bit done. But then I stumbled on to Brandon Sanderson's schedule - which was near identical to the one I had fallen into and guilt evaporated. I've been twice as productive since I let go of the guilt and just embraced it.
I always look forward to your videos. I just finished all my exams for the year and had your videos in my watchlist and now binge watching them all. Better than watching a movie, seriously!
Gotta love it when the "night owl" is like "Oh no, I go to bed at 3 a.m. and then sleep until 10 a.m.!" *blushes* I'd love to hit these numbers on my days off. Usually it ends up being anywhere between 5 and 6:30 a.m. followed by waking up around 1:30 p.m. from my alarm that keeps me from sleeping even longer 🥲
This whole video is great lol. Watching Sarah struggle with waking up early but overall enjoy the benefits of it, while Matt is out here like "I'm so tried how do people live like this"
Love this video! I am a night owl who comes from a family of night owls. Being made to feel lazy because I can’t get up early really sucks. When I get up early I feel like I lose my creativity even if I have more productivity and I find I burn out mentally and emotionally without having the space for creativity and unstructured time.
The thing that really brought home the point for me that the biological clock is real and you can only do so much to change it was working a job for the summer that required me to be there at 6 AM every day. No matter how dead tired I was, night time would hit and I absolutely could not sleep. My mind was racing and my energy level increased despite me desperately wanting to sleep knowing how tired I would be in the morning. Meanwhile, while I worked, I downed 3 energy drinks a day just to keep from falling asleep in the chair. I eventually settled into a routine of napping when I would get home at 4 knowing I wouldn’t get enough sleep overnight. There’s no way I could survive on a schedule like that long-term.
Interesting experiment, and diving into and exploring your chronotype is a gamechanger. It really shows you how unique we all are and that trying to follow another person's "way" will only work for so long. It's about 1) learning what works for you, and then 2) giving yourself the permission to embrace this - it's the latter that's often the hardest.
I've never understood why waking up early is seen as productive and beneficial but sleeping in is seen as lazy, we all need sleep, so sleep whenever you'd like.
That's definitely total nonsense. The only thing beneficial for productivity in waking up early-ish is that you're awake during more business hours than someone who wakes up at 10:00 or 11:00 or later.
It's probably tied to the sun from very old times, or someone who wakes up earlier can take things earlier, although, with this logic someone who stays up late, is earlier haha
well if you procrastinate your work and have anxiety about it like sara then I would say maybe try to wake up a bit earlier and do some work earlier in the day instead of at the end of the day. but other than that I agree, sleep whenever you like if it's not bothering you or your mental health
Love this video Matt! being a Night Owl who usually stays up until 1-2AM and will wake up around 10-11AM I really appreciate the dual perspective you gave on "Morning Birds" and "Night Owls" as well as the portion about the genetic coding! From as early as elementary school all the way until college, I remember waking up early and having stomach aches and being half asleep, so to get to this sort of validation for being a Night Owl so many years later is refreshing.
I love this! I think I've had and tested all kinds of sleeping routines (a lot of them as a consequence of youtube videos pushing the idea of becoming the morning person) but what I tend to gravitate towards, and always have, is very similar to what Sara does. The lack of distractions during the night is absolutely amazing, but this routine doesn't make it easy to live when you have fixed schedules like school or work where you *need* to show up at certain times during the day. But had I the freedom to set my own schedule I would 100% stick to being a night owl.
Matt this is an amazing video, loved this experiment. Natalie is of course the highlight, I just love her. I can't wait to see how much of your day to day routine is going to change once your bambino gets here.
I'm an early bird, i'm rarely productive after dinner. I've always had the 'work first, play after' mentality, rewarding myself for my productive work i did during the day by relaxing at night.
I am a morning person in theory but I can relate to Sarah's anxiety issues. In an ideal world I wake up early and start tidying my space, casually have breakfast and do some reading, go for a walk and listen to music and slowly ease into working. But then I don't have enough time to finish work so I can get my sleep to get up again early 😭😭😭
Recently found Sara through her husband John Hills skateboard channel, and I’ve been a long time subscriber to you it feels like my algorithm is just creating videos for me lol
This video made me realize the differences in how my partner and I each start the day (she is more like Rachel and I am more like Matt). I often feel like I'm trapped in bed in the morning until she wakes up, but even then, it takes her a while to get out of bed. My personal takeaway from this video is that I should start doing things that can be done stationary before she wakes up, then I feel more productive and less stressed.
Same with my partner and me. He gets up two to three hours before me and just tries to be super sneeky. 98% of the time I don't hear him waking up and he can get stuff done. Why not just get up quietly before your partner?
10pm to midnight is my golden time. Everyone else is in bed and I’m just a little tired so my mind isn’t racing and distracted so the flow state comes more easily.
After considering myself a morning person all my life, I started a new job working night shift some months ago. Rewiring my sleep schedule was surprisingly easy! I am now pretty much convinced that time is fake - I'm not a morning person or a night person, I'm literally just a person. :D You can have a productive 'morning' routine at any time of the day - well, unless it explicitly contains "seeing the sunrise," but that's just part of my evening routine now.
Love how positive this is, I get to watch my sighted non24 teen trying to deal with a world that doesn’t accommodate them at all - I need the positive ❤
I'm very similar to Sarah. I tend to sleep until 10am and then slowly ease into the day. It's really difficult to rewire that. I often have morning shifts at work, starting at 6/7 am, and I can never get enough sleep before as I tend to stay awake until like midnight.
I did that when I was unemployed now I’m working full time and it’s sooo difficult to get up early i swear I’m just not cut out for it 😭😭 I’m so tired all day
I love when I'm able to wake up early, there's so much more time to get things done before the world starts waking up - but I'm also a night owl whose best hours are between 10pm-3am. Without that late night slot, I feel like I'm losing a part of the day which is for me; the calm hours where I'd draw, study, watch something, listen to a podcast etc before I go to sleep. It's a neverending battle.
This past week, I've been trying to get away from being a night owl and do the early morning thing. So far, waking up before 5 hasn't been the main issue. It's actually great to get stuff done before the rest of the house is up. But my main issue is getting to bed early. I dont need a lot of sleep...maybe 6-7hrs is fine for me. But that still means I gotta go to bed by 10-11pm the night before. THAT is my real struggle. :(
It's so interesting seeing the lives of people that are so different to mine and then seeing them experience each other's lives. Such a cool video! Keep the great work up
For several years I worked a job where i needed to wake up at 4 to 5 am to get there on time. Combined with the long commute, I was miserable. Now I have a flexible schedule where i can wake up at 8am and work from 9am to 6 or 7pm. I feel so much better.
I sleep from 6am to 2pm due to being a pernament night shifter. I think if u have a pernament schedule set and your not jumping between Day Mode and Night Mode, you're fine. Doing shift work was the worst. Easily. I wake up at 2pm, and exercise and get out of the house before dark.
This video has really been effective for me. given im in high school - i've been meaning to find my productive hours, and this video really just helped me see the other sides of work-routines. Thanks a lot Matt for such a informative video!!
Awesome to see this collab. I started watching John Hill years back and loved seeing his progression (Progress Daily!) in life. They motivated me in life which lead me to watching your channel. You guys are a huge inspiration.
Love this. Can’t wait to see your prospective on productivity, sleep and children. It was a wild wake-up call for me. Pre baby life I was a night owl with horrible insomnia needing anywhere between 8-11hr of sleep to function best. Now with two little boys, I don’t get to sleep in past 6-7am most days living off average of 5 hours sleep a night broken up to breastfeed.
Loved this collaboration and the concept of the video! It was great seeing Sara here! Well, a mid-owl here…I tried the 5am, 6am, the what-ever-am ritual but I decided to wake up naturally (between 7:45 to 8:15) and also I sleep a 20 min siesta everyday (a Power Nap I guess…). I like sleeping and maybe saying it sounds like a little bit guilty in this obsessed society of hustling 24-7 but that´s who am I. A mid owl. Loved the concept!
I was a little into early bird before my child was born, now that he is here, I went full early bird. The calm before the storm is your time, you can do whatever you want, and is up to you to use it for being productive, just catch up with a show or videogame, or watch this video.
I tried to change my routine. But I can't be creative in the morning at all, even when I got used to waking up early. It's always around 10PM-1AM that I can be creative and work real fast. I can get stuck with work the whole day and can easily finish it in 1-2 hours when working at night which is hard to adjust to the society.
I'm in the middle. 10pm-7am is the perfect sweet spot for sleep. The thought of 5am has me exhausted already and staying up till 4am has me feeling like I'd miss out on life. The best stuff happens during the day.
I work for the railroad and we have an extremely irregular schedule. Actually no schedule at all. we could go to work at 8am, 11a, 5pm, midnight, 2am.. whenever. And we are on call during these times, meaning, we get called and have to show up to work 2 hours after they call us no matter what time it is. It has terrible effects on our health.
Im just now easing into embracing later mornings and nights. There's so much guilt still left from when i was a teenager and getting scolded for doing creative stuff during the night and sleeping in...so glad that homeoffice allows me to finally have days i dont start alreasy exhausted from waking up early🙏
I used to wake up about 9 to 10 am each day until a few weeks ago when i started waking up at 5:30 to 6:00 instead, i feel way better waking up early and actually more refreshed
I like the night, and i'm a bit more productive at night, but I can wake up early in the morning, not be tired, and be just as productive on a good day
Indeed; it's very hard to explain to "morning people" but there's something so mysterious yet comforting about the night. It's like you can experience the stillness and true energy of places. Daylight is cool and all, but it's very hard to experience this with other people around.
Researchers have found that there's most probably evolutionary reasons for the existence of night owls and early birds because nights were dangerous and having someone awake at night gave us an advantage.
Me too. I like dark. I like to go for walking alone in the dark in parks. And sleep late. But is dangerous. I know. But what i can do. I have tried countless times to go for walking every possible hour of the day and i hate it. Because of the sun where i cannot see. Too many people. Too much pollution and too loud.
Like all qualities, pride has both a light and dark side. When inflated, pride becomes boastful, but the other end of the spectrum is no better. If the opposite of pride is shame, then self-love means offering ourselves a healthy dose of pride. Give yourself credit where credit is due. Post "I am proud of myself for... " and finish the sentence with something that happened recently that filled you with a sense of accomplishment, worthiness, and self-love.
I love your videos brother. You changed my perspective on life over two years plus+. I never thought I’d see myself here. Thank you for your help. You are an amazing individual. Always thinking about you and your contributions ❤
Day ppl struggling to be awake at night when night people are forced to be awake at times they aren't used to because society doesn't realize night people have always been a thing I LAUGH. poor day bbys 😢
I'm in my early 30s but I have been a night-owl since I was 18. And by night owl I mean I usually go to sleep at 7 in the morning. To be fair you can easily adjust to the lifestyle and there are many benefits. You work so peacefully at night, and when you go out with friends, you're full of energy. At summer, you can even enjoy the beautiful dawn before you go to sleep.
Been a night owl my whole life. Going to school as a kid was torture waking up at 6 am all those years. As soon as I was done with school switched to my preferred night owl schedule and never looked back. Although I do get all my work done the first half of the day as soon as I get up and leave the evening / late nights for myself.
I would literally fall asleep multiple times just trying to get ready and then I'd end up sleeping through a majority of my classes... being a night owl is awful when the world runs on a morning persons schedule.
One thing that works really well for me is doing some sort of alternating night owl and early bird routine- switching once either is not working well for me : for instance I notice I get quite distracted on day 25 of very early bird so I switch for a brief 5 days and then switch back on the 1st day of the cycle of 25 days. This works the best when you know what your best time to work is. Thanks for this great experiment.
I feel that I can't agree with the types in 100%. When I was younger I could sleep for 10h per day and it was pretty hard to get up early however 3 years ago when I started studies I wake up at 6.30 AM everyday, study till 20.00 and go to the gym, I go to sleep around 2.30/3.00 sth like that and I feel great. I have a lot of energy, I do everething what is needed at night. Mayby I am a short sleeper? I don't drink cofe etc. For most of people I meet it's strange 😅.
In my past, I was once forced to work 3rd shift because it was the only job available. What I found was that I had to keep to that schedule on my days off. It was horribly depressing to me, because the nights spent not at work were too dark, quiet and lonely. Especially in a New England winter. It really took its toll on my mental health. I see futuristic movies where they have windows that can project a fake sunrise-and I always think to myself “that’s the only way I’d ever be able to work that shift again!” I’m totally a diurnal person, for sure.
You could maybe put Sara in the thumbnail doing a birdbox type of thing? Holding your eyes open when you're trying to fall asleep? Just a quick little suggestion 😊
Any excuse I can get to take my shirt off, right?? Btw go follow Sara's channel for awesome tech stuff! 😀 www.youtube.com/@saradietschy
@@journalologyandcoofficial not at all man, dad bod is totally different, this man's physique was wayy better and just another 3-4 pounds away from being shredded
@@journalologyandcoofficial XD thats a whole new thing now lol this gave me another perspective, i just assumed people though a person with less visible abs and full developed chest in a dad bod
@@journalologyandcoofficial haha, dad bods are like well mascular but more of a bulky physique which suits them being at that age
Jesus dude, your physique is insane
@@journalologyandcoofficial rather would have asked for workout plan XD
Shoutout to Night Owls 🦉🦉🦉 Thanks for having me Matt! !! This video turned out so good!!
You did great Sara. Hope You'll continue. 👍🏻
What you said at 12:49 is so poignant. All of my passions and creativity were formed out of NOT doing what I was told or expected to do... 20 years later and I still treat my creativity the same! The life of a RUclipsr also sort of encourages that GET IT DONE LAST MINUTE AND AS FAST AS POSSIBLE mentality so ever since being a RUclipsr it has actually not helped inform the more structured lifestyle LOL
if i go to sleep at 10pm ish I always start to feel productive then - which leads me to not sleeping :)
I love your kitties :D 🐈
I used to be a night owl but Im more middle ground. Not sure if this is age or work conditioning me.
1:04 "Its not even in the morning, it's like 9:30am"
Loved everything about this video and experiment. Not everyone needs a 5am morning routine to be productive or successful. That's such a toxic notion that's being pushed around. Thanks for showing a balanced perspective!
I feel it's weird how this video seemingly still buys into the idea that being a night owl means wasting your time in the morning instead of just shifting your time. Like you don't need to get up slowly if you get up late. You can still have a routine just at a different time.
The whole idea that you have "all this time" in the morning if you get up early has always weirded me out so much as if people don't know how time works and just totally ignore that if you sleep the same length of time, you will have the same awake time regardless of when it is.
that's interesting. i didn't get that vibe. i'm a night owl too. his very last sentence, though!
Absolutely. This video is organised/motivated person vs procrastinator, not early bird vs night owl. Really unfair comparisons.
The bit Sara talked about with procrastinating something by diving into a rabbit hole of something else you find interesting is so relatable lmao
also a very autistic/neurodivergent trait
Definitely related to that lol
Even before watching her current ADHD video, I watched this whole thing thinking “she has ADHD”. And true enough.
@@PennaMinecraft now all came together
@Ana Carolina Sussel I do it too and I don't have either of those diagnosis. I think it's human to tend to procrastinate and find something else to do
I can SO relate to Sara. I wake up late, without an alarm. Loiter around, casually ease into the day, and then wind up working late into the night when I find I have the most focus. I pursued self employment almost exclusively for the ability to do this. I was a complete zombie my entire time in school and I could not keep living like that.
Your comment makes me want to pursue self employment too 😭😭. I am so productive at night, but I feel like a latecomer at school and now work just because I'm not myself in the morning 😴😴
I’m so glad you did this one, I’m not a morning person AT ALL and I always feel like the rest of the world makes me feel guilty or lazy for not being able to get up early and be productive. I’m so much like Sara in the way my natural sleep and work habits are, nice to know I’m not alone haha
I feel that deep in my soul. I'm much better at night. Work, exercise, creativity.
Morning is when I hiss at the sun.
I’m a morning person through and through, but I never understood the flack early birds give the night owls.
Early birds are their most productive in the morning. Night owls are most productive in the evenings. Same system, different times. For example: “I got so much done before most people are out of bed.”
Yes, but while you were in bed going to sleep, the night owls were just getting started. They could say to the morning person “hey look, I got so much done while you were sleeping.”
@@Bethany-fo6lt thank you. Means a lot. I hate how the whole world seems to always bash us but we can't help it.
Even after 8 hours of sleep, when I have to wake up at 06:00 I feel like crap and I'm 90% useless fpr the next 6 hours.
That would be the same as me bashing others for feeling crap at 01:00 in the night while I feel energetic
but the question is is it natural or procrastination? because for Sara it was procrastination
Oh this is good stuff. I’m a night owl who - left to my own devices - would go to bed between 2-3am and wake up around 10-11am. It takes me forever to wake up. Primary school was a symphony of teachers complaining about me not being attentive at the start of the day (when classes started as early as 7.50am). In this regard, being able to work from home has been a total godsend.
Even when WFH i can't, i usually wake up for 9am daily meetings at 8:50am and go back to bed for anothe hour right after lol, but in total yes it 's been a absolute godsend
Your schedule is exactly mine! I tried for DECADES to force my body into an "early bird" schedule, but that isn't how I am most productive naturally. (Also, my school started at 7:20am and it was torture)
YES. Night 🦉!
That can barely be considered night owl, I usually cant fall asleep until 7am
And there's me who just won't sleep even if I'm tired. Idk it's just so hard for me to fall asleep. Sometimes I just can't stand the process of trying to fall asleep so I go online again. It's 8.15 am here and I haven't sleep since yesterday (I woke up at around 1pm yesterday. Still tired af)
Thank you so much for portraying late start/late night in a positive light! I've tried for so long to wake up early, and I can do it, but I didn't realise at what cost until recently. I've actually pushed my night until later for practical reasons (flatmates in the bathroom anyone?) and ended up sleeping less overall and feeling more refreshed when waking up. And I shed some of the guilt I had about waking up late, and I feel lighter as a result! Also, the willpower that I was using for waking up early and having a good routine (working out, journaling, etc) is now available for other things. No more fighting each morning only to be tired and depleted for the rest of the day! What a difference it can make!
Night owl gang!!! I sleep at 10AM and start doing on my creative work from 8PM till 8AM. I love the quietness of the night and the bird song in the morning. Everything is so relaxing
Yeah, that's really good but on the other hand when you want to go travel or meeting with your friends maybe it will be hard to create time for that. For example even going to a market will be a problem (not a major one but little one). But if it's possible to create a really good home atmosphere and really good night owl people that would be awesome also.
Fr I go to bed earlier now but for a while I was hitting the hay around 5-6am every day and the sound of birdsong was very serene to fall asleep to.
@@prinniapuff i’m a night owl and wish i wasn’t. when the birds start chirping it drives me NUTS and reminds me that i’m up way too late every morning 😭
@Mustafa Umut Güven for me I go to the market in the early morning for food and as for friends, they're usually not going to be free until night anyway ;)
@@madiisuun ugh same. I was still awake at 5:30 this morning and I could see the sun come up and birds singing and it made it so much harder to fall asleep especially since I have a huge window that my bed faces 😭
I’m a night owl and have struggled with the judgement that comes with not wanting to operate on everyone else’s schedule. I’ve also put a lot of shame and pressure on myself, and felt like I just lacked discipline for not being able to adhere to the routines you see all over the internet. Learning about chronotypes was so validating. Being in a remote job with a more flexible schedule has also been a game changer. Routine and structure can be super valuable, especially as a chronic procrastinator like Sara, but being able to build a routine that works with my natural schedule not against makes all the difference.
Matt thinks 1 AM is late. That's adorable.
I on average work until 3-4 AM then read for a bit after.
Excellent. I often take for granted why Matt’s videos excel beyond the rest of self development RUclips. He doesn’t tell you what to do with your life. He inspires you and gives you the information to figure it out for yourself
12:47am and you're tired?! Damn man, as a final year college student, my bedtime is around 5-6am each night. It's been like that for two years.
This is a really cool concept!
Why don't you upload on this channel anymore?
Takes one to know one, Thomas.
I miss your video about productivity.
We miss you
@@L.I.T.H.I.U.M we're working on new videos now. But I keep finding too much cool stuff to build for the second channel 😂
matt saying "it's 9:30, it's not even morning" is probably the most matt d'avella thing he's ever said
Yeahh, i went to bed 8 am yesterday lmao. I do night shifts
@@cfnmedia SAMEE i be working the graveyard shift
@@gage.does.everything Haha yea
I kind of heard it the other way around... Like it's so early it is not even thr morning... Night owl brain lol
This is sooo timely. Ever since I've watched your videos, I developed a routine for myself that actually works. But life happens, you lose your job, broken relationships, familial obligations and etc. I've been a morning person, or at least a daytime person. Right now I'm applying for a Virtual Assistant job that would affect my circadian rhythm. I'm from the Philippines and the work schedule that I'm about to venture into would use the Pacific Standard Time, 8am to 4pm. Which would be 11pm-7am in my country. Just wanted to appreciate this video for differentiating #MorningPeople and #NightOwls. 💙
I saw this video already 3 times on my homepage. Everytime with a different thumbnail. I feel like Matt is gonna change thumbnails until I watch it
Love waking up early because I feel so good, but my body naturally wants to stay up until 2AM
Thank you for making this video! I love your productivity and experiment content, but I am definitely a night owl. I ate breakfast at 1pm while I watched this. I think this is the first time I've seen a creator share a routine that is closer to mine! I work evening shifts, so there are definitely jobs in society where night owls can thrive. Schools and remote or office jobs should definitely offer more options though.
I appreciate this video so much. I used to feel so much guilt for staying up late and getting up late. I felt like it was morally bad of me even though I was getting a fair bit done. But then I stumbled on to Brandon Sanderson's schedule - which was near identical to the one I had fallen into and guilt evaporated. I've been twice as productive since I let go of the guilt and just embraced it.
I always look forward to your videos. I just finished all my exams for the year and had your videos in my watchlist and now binge watching them all. Better than watching a movie, seriously!
Gotta love it when the "night owl" is like "Oh no, I go to bed at 3 a.m. and then sleep until 10 a.m.!" *blushes*
I'd love to hit these numbers on my days off. Usually it ends up being anywhere between 5 and 6:30 a.m. followed by waking up around 1:30 p.m. from my alarm that keeps me from sleeping even longer 🥲
This whole video is great lol. Watching Sarah struggle with waking up early but overall enjoy the benefits of it, while Matt is out here like "I'm so tried how do people live like this"
Love this video! I am a night owl who comes from a family of night owls. Being made to feel lazy because I can’t get up early really sucks. When I get up early I feel like I lose my creativity even if I have more productivity and I find I burn out mentally and emotionally without having the space for creativity and unstructured time.
The thing that really brought home the point for me that the biological clock is real and you can only do so much to change it was working a job for the summer that required me to be there at 6 AM every day. No matter how dead tired I was, night time would hit and I absolutely could not sleep. My mind was racing and my energy level increased despite me desperately wanting to sleep knowing how tired I would be in the morning. Meanwhile, while I worked, I downed 3 energy drinks a day just to keep from falling asleep in the chair. I eventually settled into a routine of napping when I would get home at 4 knowing I wouldn’t get enough sleep overnight. There’s no way I could survive on a schedule like that long-term.
Interesting experiment, and diving into and exploring your chronotype is a gamechanger. It really shows you how unique we all are and that trying to follow another person's "way" will only work for so long. It's about 1) learning what works for you, and then 2) giving yourself the permission to embrace this - it's the latter that's often the hardest.
I've never understood why waking up early is seen as productive and beneficial but sleeping in is seen as lazy, we all need sleep, so sleep whenever you'd like.
That's definitely total nonsense. The only thing beneficial for productivity in waking up early-ish is that you're awake during more business hours than someone who wakes up at 10:00 or 11:00 or later.
It's probably tied to the sun from very old times, or someone who wakes up earlier can take things earlier, although, with this logic someone who stays up late, is earlier haha
well if you procrastinate your work and have anxiety about it like sara then I would say maybe try to wake up a bit earlier and do some work earlier in the day instead of at the end of the day. but other than that I agree, sleep whenever you like if it's not bothering you or your mental health
Love this video Matt! being a Night Owl who usually stays up until 1-2AM and will wake up around 10-11AM I really appreciate the dual perspective you gave on "Morning Birds" and "Night Owls" as well as the portion about the genetic coding! From as early as elementary school all the way until college, I remember waking up early and having stomach aches and being half asleep, so to get to this sort of validation for being a Night Owl so many years later is refreshing.
I love this! I think I've had and tested all kinds of sleeping routines (a lot of them as a consequence of youtube videos pushing the idea of becoming the morning person) but what I tend to gravitate towards, and always have, is very similar to what Sara does. The lack of distractions during the night is absolutely amazing, but this routine doesn't make it easy to live when you have fixed schedules like school or work where you *need* to show up at certain times during the day. But had I the freedom to set my own schedule I would 100% stick to being a night owl.
She wakes up at 10 am and thinks it's late? Wtf. That's early!
2:20 "Bill Gates gets up at 5am along with Richard Branson"... I didn't even know those guys were dating.
Matt this is an amazing video, loved this experiment. Natalie is of course the highlight, I just love her. I can't wait to see how much of your day to day routine is going to change once your bambino gets here.
THANK YOU for normalizing being a night owl!! 😂 my brain doesn’t work before 10am 😅
As someone with ADHD who struggled in school and now runs a successful videography business,12:53 just hit me in a big way ❤️
aw that’s so good 🤍 do you take meds now?
On and off with a low dose of Ritalin. Some days I'm in the zone, others I'm hopeless 😅
the early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Perfect example of "replacing initial video title" with a more engaging one!
Lesson learnt from your course Matt!
Mind blowing! 🤯
I'm an early bird, i'm rarely productive after dinner. I've always had the 'work first, play after' mentality, rewarding myself for my productive work i did during the day by relaxing at night.
I am a morning person in theory but I can relate to Sarah's anxiety issues. In an ideal world I wake up early and start tidying my
space, casually have breakfast and do some reading, go for a walk and listen to music and slowly ease into working. But then I don't have enough time to finish work so I can get my sleep to get up again early 😭😭😭
Recently found Sara through her husband John Hills skateboard channel, and I’ve been a long time subscriber to you it feels like my algorithm is just creating videos for me lol
John and Sarah on the Chanel , I’m so hyped for this video
I used to watch John's skateboarding videos all the time. Awesome to see him here.
I always thought I was a night owl, but in fact it was just the result of bad habits, which I realized only recently 😮😅
@@TheCapedCrusader39How’s that going for ya?
@@TheCapedCrusader39 is it working?
very epic good job mlord@@TheCapedCrusader39
This video made me realize the differences in how my partner and I each start the day (she is more like Rachel and I am more like Matt). I often feel like I'm trapped in bed in the morning until she wakes up, but even then, it takes her a while to get out of bed. My personal takeaway from this video is that I should start doing things that can be done stationary before she wakes up, then I feel more productive and less stressed.
Why not get up and start your day?
Same with my partner and me. He gets up two to three hours before me and just tries to be super sneeky. 98% of the time I don't hear him waking up and he can get stuff done. Why not just get up quietly before your partner?
I find myself extremely more alert and focus at night.
I'm a mum of three year old twins. One is a night owl and one is an early riser and I have no idea what I am anymore. 😂
A tired pigeon
10pm to midnight is my golden time. Everyone else is in bed and I’m just a little tired so my mind isn’t racing and distracted so the flow state comes more easily.
After considering myself a morning person all my life, I started a new job working night shift some months ago. Rewiring my sleep schedule was surprisingly easy! I am now pretty much convinced that time is fake - I'm not a morning person or a night person, I'm literally just a person. :D You can have a productive 'morning' routine at any time of the day - well, unless it explicitly contains "seeing the sunrise," but that's just part of my evening routine now.
Love how positive this is, I get to watch my sighted non24 teen trying to deal with a world that doesn’t accommodate them at all - I need the positive ❤
I'm very similar to Sarah. I tend to sleep until 10am and then slowly ease into the day. It's really difficult to rewire that. I often have morning shifts at work, starting at 6/7 am, and I can never get enough sleep before as I tend to stay awake until like midnight.
I did that when I was unemployed now I’m working full time and it’s sooo difficult to get up early i swear I’m just not cut out for it 😭😭 I’m so tired all day
I love when I'm able to wake up early, there's so much more time to get things done before the world starts waking up - but I'm also a night owl whose best hours are between 10pm-3am. Without that late night slot, I feel like I'm losing a part of the day which is for me; the calm hours where I'd draw, study, watch something, listen to a podcast etc before I go to sleep. It's a neverending battle.
I feel exactly the same way 😅
This past week, I've been trying to get away from being a night owl and do the early morning thing. So far, waking up before 5 hasn't been the main issue. It's actually great to get stuff done before the rest of the house is up. But my main issue is getting to bed early. I dont need a lot of sleep...maybe 6-7hrs is fine for me. But that still means I gotta go to bed by 10-11pm the night before. THAT is my real struggle. :(
Great collab! I find both of their content interesting individually so it’s definitely neat seeing these two RUclipsrs together.
It's so interesting seeing the lives of people that are so different to mine and then seeing them experience each other's lives. Such a cool video! Keep the great work up
I am naturally a morning person. When I work late in the day I find that I make so many mistakes that I am making more work for myself.
For several years I worked a job where i needed to wake up at 4 to 5 am to get there on time. Combined with the long commute, I was miserable. Now I have a flexible schedule where i can wake up at 8am and work from 9am to 6 or 7pm. I feel so much better.
I sleep from 6am to 2pm due to being a pernament night shifter.
I think if u have a pernament schedule set and your not jumping between Day Mode and Night Mode, you're fine. Doing shift work was the worst. Easily.
I wake up at 2pm, and exercise and get out of the house before dark.
This video has really been effective for me. given im in high school - i've been meaning to find my productive hours, and this video really just helped me see the other sides of work-routines. Thanks a lot Matt for such a informative video!!
Awesome to see this collab. I started watching John Hill years back and loved seeing his progression (Progress Daily!) in life. They motivated me in life which lead me to watching your channel. You guys are a huge inspiration.
Love this. Can’t wait to see your prospective on productivity, sleep and children. It was a wild wake-up call for me. Pre baby life I was a night owl with horrible insomnia needing anywhere between 8-11hr of sleep to function best. Now with two little boys, I don’t get to sleep in past 6-7am most days living off average of 5 hours sleep a night broken up to breastfeed.
10.50 it made my gears turn when he said "neither" to both options
Thank you for the sharing. This has allowed me to understand my mentality better!
Loved this collaboration and the concept of the video! It was great seeing Sara here! Well, a mid-owl here…I tried the 5am, 6am, the what-ever-am ritual but I decided to wake up naturally (between 7:45 to 8:15) and also I sleep a 20 min siesta everyday (a Power Nap I guess…). I like sleeping and maybe saying it sounds like a little bit guilty in this obsessed society of hustling 24-7 but that´s who am I. A mid owl. Loved the concept!
I didn’t expect to see John hill in this video but it made me very happy
I was a little into early bird before my child was born, now that he is here, I went full early bird. The calm before the storm is your time, you can do whatever you want, and is up to you to use it for being productive, just catch up with a show or videogame, or watch this video.
John Hill no way bro took me back to a time where I used to watch his videos before skating 😭
I'm a night owl too, usually 3-4 am is when I'm the most creative and when I write the most
I tried to change my routine. But I can't be creative in the morning at all, even when I got used to waking up early. It's always around 10PM-1AM that I can be creative and work real fast. I can get stuck with work the whole day and can easily finish it in 1-2 hours when working at night which is hard to adjust to the society.
I'm in the middle. 10pm-7am is the perfect sweet spot for sleep. The thought of 5am has me exhausted already and staying up till 4am has me feeling like I'd miss out on life. The best stuff happens during the day.
asleep by 10 awake by 6 is what i aim for
I work for the railroad and we have an extremely irregular schedule. Actually no schedule at all. we could go to work at 8am, 11a, 5pm, midnight, 2am.. whenever. And we are on call during these times, meaning, we get called and have to show up to work 2 hours after they call us no matter what time it is. It has terrible effects on our health.
11:20 😂😂 Matt you look so done I‘m sorry 😂 just go to bed 😂❤
Night owls do not wake up at 10 am 😂😂
i find it very comfortable and nice to stay up until 11 - 12 pm, and wake up at 9 ish am
You looked really tired at the late evening! 😆 Very interesting video how it can be if... changing routines!
Im just now easing into embracing later mornings and nights. There's so much guilt still left from when i was a teenager and getting scolded for doing creative stuff during the night and sleeping in...so glad that homeoffice allows me to finally have days i dont start alreasy exhausted from waking up early🙏
This idea was great!
I used to wake up about 9 to 10 am each day until a few weeks ago when i started waking up at 5:30 to 6:00 instead, i feel way better waking up early and actually more refreshed
4:10 😂😂 Matt! So funny. Love the lighthearted vibe of this video
I like the night, and i'm a bit more productive at night, but I can wake up early in the morning, not be tired, and be just as productive on a good day
I've never been an early bird. I prefer staying up most nights. Maybe it's because I find comfort in darkness.
Indeed; it's very hard to explain to "morning people" but there's something so mysterious yet comforting about the night.
It's like you can experience the stillness and true energy of places. Daylight is cool and all, but it's very hard to experience this with other people around.
Researchers have found that there's most probably evolutionary reasons for the existence of night owls and early birds because nights were dangerous and having someone awake at night gave us an advantage.
Me too. I like dark. I like to go for walking alone in the dark in parks. And sleep late. But is dangerous. I know. But what i can do. I have tried countless times to go for walking every possible hour of the day and i hate it. Because of the sun where i cannot see. Too many people. Too much pollution and too loud.
@@DionyzosThat's very interesting!
Like all qualities, pride has both a light and dark side. When inflated, pride becomes boastful, but the other end of the spectrum is no better. If the opposite of pride is shame, then self-love means offering ourselves a healthy dose of pride.
Give yourself credit where credit is due. Post "I am proud of myself for... " and finish the sentence with something that happened recently that filled you with a sense of accomplishment, worthiness, and self-love.
I love your videos brother. You changed my perspective on life over two years plus+. I never thought I’d see myself here. Thank you for your help. You are an amazing individual.
Always thinking about you and your contributions ❤
Start a podcast 😊
Day ppl struggling to be awake at night when night people are forced to be awake at times they aren't used to because society doesn't realize night people have always been a thing
I LAUGH. poor day bbys 😢
I'm in my early 30s but I have been a night-owl since I was 18.
And by night owl I mean I usually go to sleep at 7 in the morning.
To be fair you can easily adjust to the lifestyle and there are many benefits.
You work so peacefully at night, and when you go out with friends, you're full of energy.
At summer, you can even enjoy the beautiful dawn before you go to sleep.
I can switch between both pretty easily 💙
Been a night owl my whole life. Going to school as a kid was torture waking up at 6 am all those years. As soon as I was done with school switched to my preferred night owl schedule and never looked back. Although I do get all my work done the first half of the day as soon as I get up and leave the evening / late nights for myself.
Exactly! Been trying to find this comment. Not an early riser nor I was enjoying work after 10-11pm. Enjoying both the day and the nights. Cheers mate
I would literally fall asleep multiple times just trying to get ready and then I'd end up sleeping through a majority of my classes... being a night owl is awful when the world runs on a morning persons schedule.
Editing is on fire 🔥! Can’t believe what iam watching. Monster level is on
One thing that works really well for me is doing some sort of alternating night owl and early bird routine- switching once either is not working well for me : for instance I notice I get quite distracted on day 25 of very early bird so I switch for a brief 5 days and then switch back on the 1st day of the cycle of 25 days. This works the best when you know what your best time to work is. Thanks for this great experiment.
the collab we didn't know we wanted!
OMG. I am Sara! I felt so validated!!
Man really hit early bird culture with “we live in a society”
I am like 10x with silence and my music with nobody to distract me
Seeing John was such a shock to me lmao
I feel that I can't agree with the types in 100%. When I was younger I could sleep for 10h per day and it was pretty hard to get up early however 3 years ago when I started studies I wake up at 6.30 AM everyday, study till 20.00 and go to the gym, I go to sleep around 2.30/3.00 sth like that and I feel great. I have a lot of energy, I do everething what is needed at night.
Mayby I am a short sleeper?
I don't drink cofe etc.
For most of people I meet it's strange 😅.
In my past, I was once forced to work 3rd shift because it was the only job available. What I found was that I had to keep to that schedule on my days off. It was horribly depressing to me, because the nights spent not at work were too dark, quiet and lonely. Especially in a New England winter. It really took its toll on my mental health. I see futuristic movies where they have windows that can project a fake sunrise-and I always think to myself “that’s the only way I’d ever be able to work that shift again!” I’m totally a diurnal person, for sure.
The first part when he said :
It's not even the morning it's 9:30
😄😄😄😄😄
You could maybe put Sara in the thumbnail doing a birdbox type of thing? Holding your eyes open when you're trying to fall asleep? Just a quick little suggestion 😊
Love that this was posted at midnight