The incidence of handwashing inside of hospitals dramatically drops in the afternoon. I won’t be giving analytical presentations in the afternoon if I can avoid it! NYU studied 26,000 quarterly earnings calls to reach this conclusion. Researchers found that quarterly earnings calls were negative when made in the afternoon and positive in the morning, regardless of the fundamentals reported. If you can avoid matters that require analytical thought in the afternoon, then do it. So do parole revocations in front of a judge. Surgery errors occur much more often in the afternoon. Or you can take this quiz to find out where you land on the scale. To determine where you fall on the lark-owl chronotype scale, find out the midpoint between when you wake up and when you go to bed. There is an exception to this rule, and that is our friends who are “owls.” Those of us who are strong night owls go in the reverse order. Then our spirits rise again in the evening after work.
This is the time for creative things because we’re in a slightly better mood, but we’re less inhibited. In the recovery phase, in the late afternoon, we are open to insights involving abstract ideas. This is the time to focus on administrative tasks. During this peak, we’re better at analytic work, work that requires heads-down focus, vigilance, attention, batting away distractions – auditing a financial statement, writing a legal brief. In the peaks-which for most of us is in the morning-we are at our sharpest.
There is a peak, a trough, and a rebound. He starts this book by describing the fluctuations of our mood during the day. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Pink shows that timing is a science.
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