Not All “Highly Effective” People Get Up at 5am

Nichola Scurry
6 min readApr 18, 2021

It’s okay not to be a morning person

Business woman asleep at a table
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Whenever you read a productivity, wellness, motivational or healthy habits article they all suggest that an early start to the day can only lead to success. It’s assumed that the “highly effective” people we all admire are early risers. And following their example, we structure our lives around the 9 to 5 timetable (or 8 to 6, in many cases).

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Nichola Scurry

Australian human living in Barcelona, writing mostly about popular culture with a twist of quirky. If you like my writing, I like coffee. ko-fi.com/nicscurry