That book actually put me on the track to taking this idea seriously. I'm absolutely a natural night owl and I felt like my whole life I've been considered lazy by other people because I'm not bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning, even though I think I have far more productive output that most of my peers - I just do it all in the hours while they're sleeping. Finding out that there's an actual cause besides thinking that I'm just a lazy person was a real revelation for me.

Is it too much to ask for to wake up naturally, exercise a bit, have a solid meal, then get down to business when I'm ready for it rather than having a stressed out mad scramble every single morning?

I'd rather be cautious with such assessments like "absolutely a natural night owl" – at least until we're able to tell that from the genome directly, haha.

I'm a night owl myself, but around 10 years ago I've accidentally switched to the 10pm-5am sleep pattern and those were happiest and most productive months of my life. I was waking up without alarm and was jumping out of bed, quite literally. I dream to return to that pattern again and have been trying to do so since then (no luck so far).

Studies have identified genetic markers associated with self-reported "morningness" near genes known to affect circadian rhythm.

I'm neither. I just need 6-9 hours of sleep regularly (going to bed at the same time). It takes 3 to 4 days to adjust to an other schedule (with difficulties during that period). So going out on weekends means I can't wake up early during week days.

And daylight savings only makes this worse.

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You can't be serious? People are different. Dear God, to say that lead to the Holocaust is just absolute insanity. There are so many more things that lead to the Holocaust than just "people are different".

Please don't respond to egregious comments by replying, thus taking threads further into the weeds, if not the flames. This is in the site guidelines too: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The Holocaust and the events that lead up to it were directly related to new studies about DNA and genetics. That exact line of thinking is what caused the Nazi population to pick out specific groups as a whole.

And currently, as we speak more and more violence is spreading based on people looking at others as genetically different.

Of course sleep schedules are pretty tame stuff. I'm just asking us all to please be to mindful of those who may misinterpret our discussions.

You are confusing genetics with eugenics.

People are absolutely genetically different, and I see recurring types of people everywhere I go (not necessarily tied to race). Pretending like we're all the same doesn't really help anyone and probably just turns away people who don't enjoy being lied to and shushed for something as innocent as believing there are "types" of people. That is miles away from believing some of those types are worthless and deserve to die in terrible Holocaust-style mass killings.

The Holocaust was a result of value judgements placed on genetics, and the privilege enjoyed by morning people is too.