Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?

早起鸟与夜猫子，谁更胜一筹？

The promise and perils of waking before sunrise

日出前醒来的利与弊

Rare is the chief executive who extols the virtues of a lie-in.

很少有公司首席执行官会推崇赖床的好处。

Tim Cook, boss of Apple, maker of the iPhone, wakes between 4am and 5am. So does Bob Iger, his counterpart at Disney, a media giant.

苹果公司的老板蒂姆•库克（Tim Cook）通常在早上4点到5点之间醒来，迪士尼的掌门人鲍勃•伊格尔（Bob Iger）也是如此。

According to one survey, two-thirds of the chief executives of large American companies are up by 6 o’clock; for average Americans the share is less than one in three.

根据一项调查，三分之二的大型美国公司的首席执行官在早上6点前起床；而普通美国人早起的比例却不到三分之一。

For those aspiring to corporate greatness, the message seems clear: you snooze, you lose.

对于那些渴望在商界取得伟大成就的人来说，这个信息很明确：赖床使你落后。

Your guest Bartleby harbours no such ambitions. But he has, in the past, experimented with early starts, and can confirm that their benefits go beyond the smug sense of satisfaction that comes from arriving at your desk before your editor.

本刊专栏客座编辑巴托比（译者注：Bartleby 是经济学人的一个专栏）其实并没有太多的野心，但他过去也曾尝试过早起。他发现，早起的好处远不止于提前到达办公室时的那份自得。

Inboxes can be cleared and tricky problems mulled over before the onslaught of emails and meetings begins, leaving you feeling well prepared for the day ahead. ***

在邮件和会议还未开始之前，他可以把未读邮件处理完，仔细思考那些棘手的问题，从而更好地为新的一天做准备。

Those quiet hours of the morning need not be spent solely on work.

清晨的宁静，无需只献给工作。

In a popular genre of TikTok videos, influencers film themselves performing elaborate morning routines in which they submerge themselves in ice baths, recite affirmations and mindfully prepare nootropic coffees.

在TikTok上，众多网红纷纷晒出自己复杂的晨间仪式，他们泡冰水浴，做晨诵，精心调制健脑咖啡。

In one widely pilloried video, Kris Krohn, a business coach, details how he wakes at 4 in the morning to “align the pharmacy of the body and over-dopamine the mind”.

其中，商业教练克里斯•克罗恩（Kris Krohn）的一则视频被广为诟病，视频中他详细讲述了自己如何在凌晨4点醒来，“调整身体机能，为大脑注入满满活力”。