A related observation that might help some: I’m fairly nocturnal because I can work better at night. (Less noise, less light, no interruptions from others, etc.) My default strategy to achieve that was to stay up very late and sleep until the early afternoon.
But at some point I noticed that getting up really early (like 1-3am) also gets you the time at night to work, except now you’re going to bed around 6pm instead of staying up until 6am. Both work, with different tradeoffs. (And different friend groups being accessible at different times.)
I know now that I’m not forced to stick to the “staying up late” schedule to get the effect that I want.
A related observation that might help some: I’m fairly nocturnal because I can work better at night. (Less noise, less light, no interruptions from others, etc.) My default strategy to achieve that was to stay up very late and sleep until the early afternoon.
But at some point I noticed that getting up really early (like 1-3am) also gets you the time at night to work, except now you’re going to bed around 6pm instead of staying up until 6am. Both work, with different tradeoffs. (And different friend groups being accessible at different times.)
I know now that I’m not forced to stick to the “staying up late” schedule to get the effect that I want.