From the course: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Blinkist Summary)

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Discover chronotypes

Discover chronotypes

- [Instructor] Blink number two. To make the most of your day understand your chronotype. So there's substantial evidence that our emotional levels tend to follow a daily pattern. But that doesn't mean everyone's pattern is the same. Although everyone shares the afternoon energy trough, there's a good chance you have friends or family whose schedule is otherwise different. studies show that on average one in every four people has a different internal clock or what's known as a chronotype. In addition to the normal chronotype which experiences the morning peak, afternoon trough and evening rebound, there are two others. The night owl and to use the author's term for early risers, the lark. Research suggests that 20% to 25% of people are owls who like inventor Thomas Edison and novelist Gustav Flaubert take around 9 p.m., Which is when they prefer to get down to business and tend to experience their positive rebound in the…

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