My earliest memory was my mother waking me up. It was dark outside and chilly inside. I don't remember how many times she came into my room to get me out of bed. I do remember pulling the covers over my head and refusing to get up in the dark and cold to get ready for pre-school . . .
Mom was the first to give up in our morning battle and I started kindergarten with "learning deficits". Decades later I continue to not want to greet the new day until it is DAYtime. Morning and me ain't buddies.
Furthermore, people, like my husband, who bound out of bed alert and cheerful are jarring at best and obnoxious at worst.
I take umbrage at being labeled "lazy" by you early-morning-worshipers who think those of us who understand that moving any extremity in increments larger than a few inches is not natural before 10 am.
NOW! FINALLY I'm vindicated!!! Read this excerpt!
"As anyone who struggles to get out of bed in the morning knows, fighting laziness is a losing battle. From beneath the covers, the world outside seems colder; the commute to work seems longer; the number of e-mails to answer unbearably high. Authority figures may chalk our lethargy to lack of self-discipline, but . . .
. . . new research suggests that we’re just being our true selves: Choosing the path of least resistance, scientists argue, is hard-wired into our brains." (What a relief. I thought my wiring was simply "lose")
"Outlining the results of their work in a new paper in eLife, the researchers conclude that human brains seem to be wired for laziness. “Our brain tricks us into believing the low-hanging fruit really is the ripest,” said lead author Nobuhiro Hagura, Ph.D.,. . . ”
"When we make decisions to act (or not), the brain thinks like an economist and runs a cost-benefit analysis. If the “cost to act,” as the researchers call it, is too high, it can bias our decision-making process, making us less likely to do things.
Applied cleverly, their findings can help us do things that we should be doing — and those that we should be avoiding. For example, going to the gym in the morning could seem more effortless if you sleep in your sweats, just as stashing your booze on a hard-to-reach shelf might make drinking it seem like more effort than its worth. There’s no guarantee that these hacks will work, but . . . "
". . . if there’s one thing we can count on, it’s that we’ll always take the easy route when it’s available — and becoming less lazy may simply come down to avoiding that option altogether."
If you don't believe us read the article:
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