雙語美文：聰明人大多選擇起早床

Morning offers several benefits that can’t be found at other times of the day. Shifting your schedule might take some adjustment , but it’s worth it.

早上有很多好處是其他時(shí)段所沒有的。雖然你可能需要一些適應(yīng)時(shí)間才能改變你的時(shí)間表，但是這是值得的。

You'll have more energy.

你的精力會(huì)更充沛。

Doing your best work means managing your mental energy, and you automatically have more mental energy in the morning when you wake up.

想要發(fā)揮你的最好水平，就意味著你要管理你的精力，而你早晨剛醒來的時(shí)候自然就有更多的經(jīng)理。

Even if you didn’t sleep great but enough, you probably have much more mental energy to willfully refocus and let things go that don’t matter.

即使你前一晚上沒有睡得太好，但只要睡得足夠了，你也會(huì)有更多地精力來有意識(shí)地集中注意力，同時(shí)還能放下那些并不重要的事情。

You can think creatively and have more capacity to use your prefrontal cortex.

你能進(jìn)行創(chuàng)造性的思維，并且能更好地運(yùn)用你的前額葉皮質(zhì)(大腦中管理決策的區(qū)域)。

This makes a huge difference for using your time productively as you can choose what you want to work on, and stay on track and follow through.

這對(duì)于高效利用時(shí)間來說是至關(guān)重要的，因?yàn)槟隳苓x擇你想做什么，并且可以有條不紊地按照步驟來做。

You have fewer decisions to make.

你需要做的決定會(huì)更少。

You don’t have to do the things that drain mental energy, like making a lot of small decisions.

你不用去做那些消耗你精力的事情，比如做各種小決策。

Small decisions use up our self-control regulator abilities.

小決策會(huì)消耗你的自控力。

It’s not a finite resource that runs out, but it gets harder to do as you go along.

雖然自控力并不是那種能用光的有限資源，但是它的確會(huì)隨著你的使用而越來越難調(diào)取。

You go from thinking fast to thinking slow. You get hungrier.

你的思維速度會(huì)越來越慢。你還會(huì)變得更餓。

Mornings allow you the time and space to work on things that are important.

早晨會(huì)讓你有時(shí)間和自由去做那些重要的事情。