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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n As a self-proclaimed evening person, I struggle to admit this, but I do find my rare early mornings calming and satisfying in a way I never expected. As Arthur C. Brooks notes in a recent article, not everyone is built to feel their best at the same time of day. But there are things you can do to add stability to whichever time of day you feel your most stressed out. \u201cIf you, like me, struggle to feel human in the morning, this protocol can probably help you,\u201d Brooks writes. Today\u2019s newsletter rounds up stories about how different people prefer to get through the earliest hours of the day.<\/p>\n On Mornings<\/strong><\/p>\n Six Ways to Start Early and Lift Your Mood<\/p>\n By Arthur C. Brooks<\/p>\n Try my protocol for a happy start to the day and see what works for your own well-being.<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Why an Early Start Is the \u2018Quintessence of Life\u2019<\/p>\n By Arthur C. Brooks<\/p>\n Not sleeping late could be the best resolution you ever keep.<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Can Medieval Sleeping Habits Fix America\u2019s Insomnia?<\/p>\n By Derek Thompson<\/p>\n The history of \u201cfirst sleep\u201d and \u201csecond sleep\u201d holds surprising lessons about preindustrial life, 21st-century anxiety, and the problem with digging for utopia in the past. (From 2022<\/em>)<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Still Curious?<\/p>\n Other Diversions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. As a self-proclaimed evening person, I struggle to admit this, but I do find my rare early mornings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[12930,364],"class_list":{"0":"post-21076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-mornings","9":"tag-people"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}