early start – The idea that early starting are a virtuous lot goes a long way back to the period of Aristotle who noted, “rising before daylight is commendable; it is a healthy habit.” Later, Benjamin Franklin reworded it into “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,” which we all learnt, remember and some practice.
Rather recently, there has been calls to start the official day early, make conference calls early & be part of breakfast meetings more than at lunch. This also means to push Twitter & facebook to the later part of the day and reserve the forenoon to get “the real things done.” This recent push towards early starting had its origins in a research paper published in the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology which suggests that humans become more passive as the day wears on. It also puts forth the idea to go for the most important thing first thing in the morning as you might not as competent to face the task later in the day.
