[avalaunch]

This is just silly. You get the same amount of hours in a day regardless of whether you wake up early or stay up late. Other than missing out on the sunrise, none of his arguments hold much water.

There's no reason you can't exercise in the evening. In fact, gyms are typically busiest between 4-7 pm so clearly a lot of people find time to exercise after work. And there's no reason you can't be just as productive at night as you can in the morning. To follow the same name dropping technique he uses, famous night owls include President Obama, Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Keith Richards and Elvis Presley. And finally, you definitely don't need to get up at 5 in the morning to make a healthy breakfast smoothie that only takes 5-10 minutes to make. Just wake up 5-10 minutes earlier if you're really that pressed for time.

From my personal experience, being a night owl is easier on the body. Waking up early is great until you decide you want a social life that extends past your normal bedtime of 9 pm. Then your whole schedule gets out of whack and you struggle to make up for the sleep debt.

"Tis night: now only do all songs of the loving ones awake. And my soul also is the song of a loving one." - Nietzsche

[mathattack]

My impression is the big virtue of getting up early is nobody is around. It's time for solo thought. There's no waiting for equipment at the gym, if it's open early. And it's possibly to plan the day.

It's not for everyone. This could also be done after everyone else goes to bed, for those so inclined.

[banachtarski]

As Yakko Warner of the animaniacs put it "Early to rise and early to bed…Makes a man healthy, but socially dead"

[avalaunch]

I must be getting old. I had to look up Animaniacs.

[banachtarski]

This was an 80s cartoon.