In the process of chatting with the refueling group, I overheard the book "Get up at 4 o'clock", and later learned that Quentin also got up at 4 o'clock among the eight interns.
To tell the truth, when I first heard the name of this book, I felt a little ridiculous. I have heard of early risers and those who get up at 5 o'clock. I've never seen anyone really get up at 4 o'clock!
With this mentality, I tried to search the book. Unexpectedly, there really is!
When I got this book, I slowly opened it and was attracted by its preface.
Get up at four o'clock every morning, and you can work eight hours in the morning and eight hours in the afternoon. At noon 12, it is exactly eight hours in the morning and eight hours in the afternoon, so you can concentrate on your work.
To tell the truth, as a teacher, he gets up at 6: 30 every morning, arrives at school at 7: 20 and begins to study by himself at 7: 50. Originally, he was an early riser, but he was also attracted by his "trichotomy".
To sum up the contents of the book, there are several reasons for getting up early:
Many people will be troubled by lack of time. After returning home, all kinds of things came one after another, and there was no way to calm down and complete my task. In this case, most people will choose to stay up late to work overtime.
However, working overtime at night will lead to unclear thinking and affect work efficiency the next day. However, this time period in the morning, it becomes completely different. Not only will work efficiency be improved, but you can also use this time to recharge yourself.
Getting up in the morning, thinking clearest, is a good time to learn all kinds of foreign languages. And after warming up in the morning, it will be very easy to get into work when you really get into work.
By my side, those writers who insist on writing more articles all use their morning time to write articles. Because the period from 4: 00 to 6: 00 is entirely yours.
During this time, you can review the previous day's work, make today's plans, and even perform today's tasks ahead of schedule. It is much more efficient to finish the task ahead of time than to work overtime and stay up late.
How many people simply give up eating breakfast because they have no time in the morning, and gradually form the habit of not eating breakfast. Everyone knows that skipping breakfast will have an impact on the body, but I don't know that it will also reduce brain activity. Some companies even check whether employees have breakfast or not, and it is inefficient in the morning!
I remember when I was at school, my parents would get up every morning to cook porridge and let me drink it before going to school. Even on weekends, if I want to sleep a little longer, I will get up for breakfast first and then go to bed. This formed the habit of eating breakfast every morning, and this habit has continued until now. Skipping breakfast always makes me feel like I'm missing something.
This habit is normal for me, but in college, I met a roommate who didn't have the habit of eating breakfast and often had a stomachache, which reminded me of the habit I developed since I was a child.
Besides these well-known reasons, sitting together for breakfast in the morning is also a very important communication time for families with different working hours.
When I was a child, although my parents would get up every day to cook porridge, they would climb into bed and go back to sleep as soon as they pressed the button. So, from small to large, I always eat breakfast alone. Every time I see a TV series in which a family eats breakfast neatly, I envy it all the more. In our family, because of parents' working hours, lunch and dinner can't be neatly together. It seems that there is only time for breakfast. Now that I think about it, it is one of the regrets that I didn't bring my parents to have breakfast together.
If you are like me, don't leave such regrets.
In the morning, the crowded subway is always impressive. In the crowded subway, we can't concentrate on anything. An hour's journey by subway is spent with people's patience.
However, as long as we go out half an hour in advance and don't even need to get up at 4 o'clock, the subway can become a study room. You can watch today's news on the subway, make a good work plan for the day on the subway, and even listen to the recording and study on the subway.
The author spent an hour on the subway every day and finished his first novel in his twenties. For the author, the subway is a "mobile study".
People who get on the bus early can make full use of commuting time. These days, some people dare to make up publicly in the subway! Only unexpected, not impossible. However, if you get on a crowded bus, you can do nothing but endure it.
In the farming era, almost everyone advocated the life state of "work at sunrise and rest at sunset", and farmers started working after 6 o'clock. In this working state, the average working time of agricultural, forestry and fishery workers only needs five and a half hours.
I remember staying at my grandparents' house during the summer vacation. They always get up early, then cook breakfast, wash clothes and feed the ducks ... When I get up, my grandfather often goes out and my grandmother has finished the housework. In the evening, I turn off the lights at 7 o'clock, watch TV for a while and go to bed at 8 o'clock. When I lived with my grandparents, I gradually got used to this lifestyle.
Perhaps this lifestyle is the healthiest. This may be one of the reasons for the higher average life expectancy in rural areas.
Nowadays, with staying up late and working overtime becoming a common practice, the sleep time is gradually decreasing, and even many people lie in bed and brush their mobile phones for a while. It is already early in the morning.
Sometimes there is no task at night, and I always feel that it is a waste to sleep before 1 1.
This idea is extremely frightening. If this continues, the body will always call the police!
The book Get Up at 4 o'clock gives many examples of company executives. There are many reasons for their success, but they all have one thing in common: they are all early risers.
When to get up may not be certain, everyone should have their own lifestyle, but perhaps, this lifestyle is very suitable for you?
After reading this book, I feel full of fighting spirit, just like the author said:
There is only one difference between "people who will succeed" and "people who will not succeed".
That is, "successful people" find other people's good habits and will work hard to develop them. But "unsuccessful people" are too lazy to develop it even though they know it is a good habit. So they will never make progress and will never succeed.