Positioning your orbit to have the strongest gravity

In theory, humans exhibit greater productive early in the morning because their brains are rested, which means they’re naturally more alert and energized.

Their motivation is high during this quiet and calm time, as people are less distracted and happier. They’re more likely to anticipate problems and minimize them efficiently, as they’re not waiting around to be told what to do or how to handle things.

Finally, there is also the alignment with social norms. Society generally operates on a schedule that favors early risers. The majority of work environments and institutions follow traditional business hours, and early birds can advantage of this by getting a head start on their day

Now, this theory doesn’t suggest that night owls are any less productive. The ongoing debate between the two types arises due to several powerful factors like societal customs, personal preferences, and conflicting perceptions of productivity.

Turns out, there is no universal right or wrong chronotype. Someone who wakes up at the crack of dawn to do their thing before the rest of the world is awake, is no better or worse than the person who burns the midnight oil while everyone else is sleeping.

Waking up early is not the royal road to productivity, motivation and success. No matter what all the fitness influencers tell you. And staying up late is not the gateway drug to impulsive behavior and high risk decisions like binge drinking, overeating, gambling, or criminal activity. No matter what all the clickbait articles tell you.

Truth is, it’s all relative. And I mean that in the scientific sense of the term. Because the principle in play is the actual phenomenon of relativity.

Einstein discovered in the early nineteen hundreds that concept of time dilation occurs when our perception is distorted based on the intensity or novelty of our experiences. If we are fully engaged in an activity or immersed in a new and exciting situation, like making love or creating pottery or going surfing, our brain processes a larger amount of information, making time seem to stretch or slow down.

We feel like hours have elapsed, when in reality, it was only minutes.

Conversely, during those periods of boredom or monotony, when our attention is not fully engaged, time appears to drag or pass more slowly. Whether it’s struggling through a mundane history course, waiting in line at the dmv, or working an office job with nothing to do all day, minutes drag by like hours.

Interstellar, my favorite time travel movie, did a beautiful job explaining how people can reckon with, think about and resolve the relativity of time. The best scene is when the astronauts pass through a wormhole to another galaxy to search for a new home.

On the other side, they decide to investigate three planets orbiting a black hole.

But one astronaut remains in orbit, while his team takes a probe down to the surface. When they return to the ship after only an hour of exploring, due to the time dilation caused by the black hole’s extremely strong gravity, twenty three years have passed.

Twenty three years.

That’s a time dilation factor of sixty thousand, says the physicist who consulted on the film. Certainly makes for one hell of a cinematic storytelling device!

And the good news is, each of can leverage this science to our advantage. Whether we’re early birds, night owls, or some other animal in between, the goal is figuring out which scenario creates the strongest gravitational pull for us.

We essentially need to find our own black hole. Because the deeper we find ourselves in a strong gravitational field, the slower our clock will run, relative to someone is not in as strong of a gravitational field.

The closer to the event horizon of the black hole we get, the greater the time dilation becomes.

Which will lead to becoming more productive and fulfilled.