The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
by placing them in this broader window of 0 to 8 hours after waking, what you're doing is you're creating task-bracketing. You're making it such that your nervous system will predict when you are going to lean in against limbic friction in order to perform particular types of habits.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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take the habits for which you know there's the highest degree of limbic friction, they are the hardest for you to engage in, they require the most activation energy, and put those in this 0 to 8 hours after waking. This will greatly facilitate your performance of those new habits.
It involves the 24 hour days into what I call three phases. The first is phase one, which is 0 to 8 hours after waking up, approximately. Okay, you can put a plus or minus 30 minutes on this for yourself. The second phase is the 9 to 14, maybe 15 hours after you wake up. And the third phase is 16 to 24 hours after waking up.