Book V. 1. In the morning, when you find yourself unwilling to rise, have this thought at hand: I arise to the proper business of man, and shall I repine at setting about that work for which I was born and brought into the world? Am I equipped for nothing but to lie among the bed-clothes and keep warm? “But,” you say, “it is more pleasant so.” Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers? Do you not see the smallest plants, the little sparrows, the ants, the spiders, the bees, all doing their part, and working for order in the Universe, as far as in them lies? And will you refuse the part in this design which is laid on man? Will you not pursue the course which accords with your own nature? You say, “I must have rest.” Assuredly; but nature appoints a measure for rest, just as for eating and drinking. In rest you go beyond these limits, and beyond what is enough; but in action you do not fill the measure, and remain well within your powers.Nothing quite like getting a two millennium old message nagging me "to get my lazy butt out of bed" to start the day.
The early bird gets the worm. If Neanderthals didn’t get up when the animals did, he’d have starved.
Of course, the authors had to include “a greater risk for severe Covid, and more susceptibility to certain diseases” on the early riser list. Funny, too, they included “according to Serena Tucci, an assistant professor of anthropology and evolutionary biology at Yale University who wasn’t involved in the study, which she called “fascinating.”