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Why is it that when faced with a lot of work, people tend to stay up late to get it done instead of getting up early the next day?

Why is it that when faced with a lot of work, people tend to stay up late to get it done instead of getting up early the next day?

I'm sure we've all had the experience of staying up until the wee hours of the morning with cup after cup of coffee or tea to get the heavy workload of the day done. If we tell people that this is because we are extremely responsible for our work, I believe that not many people will really believe it. Why is this phenomenon so common? The reasons actually vary from person to person.

1, the need for work. Perhaps just in the important stage of the project, every day there are busy things, if you do not work hard to complete today's work, it is likely to accumulate to tomorrow along with the pressure of this next day's work, so that they are even more tired, if the second also did not finish on time, it really is a vicious circle like a snowball. So would rather stay up late to finish today's work today, is indeed due to work pressure and lead to overtime.

2, the workload is so large, during the day has been hard busy day, if things are not completed today, it is likely that the next day to be the same hard busy, in that case, why not simply this busy compressed in today? Through the night to work late, in exchange for tomorrow a whole day of relaxation?

3, late at night, no one else to disturb, work more efficiently. Many people may think so, but in fact the night time is used to rest, even if there is coffee or tea mandatory refreshing, but the whole person's state of mind has been obviously not good, not to mention the day also busy day. So the night work efficiency is not necessarily high, especially overnight work. But many people still wrongly view this matter too.

4, I would rather be busy at night, and then go to bed later, but also in the morning in the quilt to lie a little more. For the difficult to get up, or in winter, get up early is an extremely painful thing. So you'd rather sleep late and get things done that day than get up early the next day. After all, modern people, especially young people sleep later and later.

What is your different opinion on this issue?

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People who need to deal with a lot of work are rarely at the boss level, doing it when they want to and not doing it when they don't want to. The ones who need to work overtime are often the miserable wage earners, the labored mid-levels, or the small bosses who aren't big enough yet.

A lot of work is time-limited. For example, if I see a patient today, do I have to enter the chart tomorrow? If I change shifts tomorrow, should I leave the work I should be doing to someone else? It just doesn't make sense, so even if I have to stay up late and work overtime, I still have to get it done on my own time. It's good that it's all electronic medical records now. In the past, it was all handwritten and the writing was exhausting.

For some other work is the same, for example, tomorrow morning meeting need to use the information, you can not have to wait until tomorrow morning to do, so the time is too tight, and can not guarantee that the quality of work completed is not certain.

If you want to complete the urgent work at hand as completely and perfectly as possible, then relatively more time is needed for preparation. So prefer to stay up late the day before and get some rest when you're done.

Guess it needs to get to the point where we have more money than we can spend and no need to earn any money at all before we can actually do whatever we want and not do any work if we don't want to!

Because of inertia. In the early years, I myself was very used to pulling late nights instead of getting up early, and now I've changed that; going to bed late is just too draining on the body.


01. Inertia is more powerful than we think

Most people usually have some bad habits that they can't always change, such as: overeating and smoking, which is not a sign of their weak will, but inertia at work. It is not easy to start at the beginning, like smoking the first cigarette is very difficult, rolling up after it is difficult to stop, all rely on inertia to push forward. Once changed at this point it requires a relatively large external force.
This is the same thing with working late at night; the work is started and you don't want to stop, you always feel like you can finish it if you hang on a little longer.
By the time it's really done, it's early in the morning or the next morning.

It also has to do with the fact that most people overestimate their abilities.


02. How to jump out of the consuming self-circle is a lifelong subject to be confronted with

Understanding the reasoning just mentioned, we also understand why we are always willing to work overtime instead of continuing the next morning . Even though we know that some things are harmful to us, we just can't stop, so how to jump out of this consuming circle is actually a topic we need to face in our life.
I have the following three suggestions:
First of all, evaluate from a third-party perspective. Our friends who have no interest in the matter can often evaluate our level of performance more objectively and give us a better judgment than our own as to whether or not we should stick with it. Although overtime is a small matter, this method can also be used, and is very effective.
Secondly, cooperation and division of labor should be strengthened. Teams exist to share problems and solve difficulties better and faster, and this is precisely the time to reach out and ask for their help.

Third, always call for a stop. Being able to stop is an ability that has to be practiced constantly. Learning to let go of what is right in front of your eyes is not easy.


03. Cognitive upgrading: the ability to stop at any time is a valuable ability

Everyone wants more and more, so shouting stop is hard and requires us to keep reminding ourselves - even this will pass, so we might as well let go early.
Good luck!
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Stay up late than get up early more reliable, because the first, stay up late to finish the work, you can rest assured that sleep, sleep more solid, the second, once a person is very tired sleep, it is difficult to quickly wake up, the third and most important, stay up late you will have a large period of quiet time to think about doing things, and the time can be controlled, the original plan to 10 o'clock to complete, even if the middle of the error there is a chance to correct, the big thing is that dry to 12 o'clock, can be You get up early to work can not have so much time to correct, because immediately went to work.

As the saying goes, today is the day. If we put things off until tomorrow, then tomorrow's things add up to be even more burdensome. Many young people nowadays should have had the experience of working overtime, and most of them would rather work overtime to finish today's tasks than put them off until tomorrow.

It's not just because we've been brought up with this kind of education and indoctrinated with this kind of thinking mindset. It's also in large part because most people will feel unsettled if they don't get their work done at work. This is, after all, not something that can be solved in school by cajoling the class rep if you don't finish your homework.

A colleague of mine, every day she works very seriously, the other day, the company's performance needs to be raised, she began to constantly planning programs, programs such things need inspiration, need to go to the realization of a good program from the plan to the implementation of a large amount of time. During that time she went home at night, sometimes still thinking about the program, every day to stay up very late.

I then advised her not to work too hard, and she said that at night, it's very quiet, and although she sometimes dozes off a bit, her thoughts are very, very clear at that time. She can focus on one thing and is sometimes much more productive at night than in a noisy corporate environment.

Another reason why people don't want to put off work until the next day is that it's hard to get into the swing of things if you get up very early the next morning and are sleepy-eyed. And if you start working early in the morning, then you are expected to feel very tired all day. That means that one day's workload will affect your life for two days.

Therefore, it's better to put things off than to resolve them once and for all. But I don't recommend staying up late to work. Staying up late is most obviously manifested in the skin, due to the endocrine imbalance caused by frequent staying up late, which will lead to rough, dry, lack of elasticity, and more prone to spots.

In addition, excessive fatigue leads to poor blood flow around the eyes, causing dark circles and red blood under the eyes, and just from the appearance, people who often stay up late are always unconfident and listless. I think it should be about maximizing the efficiency of work per unit of time as much as possible, rather than relying on the extension of working hours.

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There are some jobs in the workplace where the best time to process and submit them would have been last night, not this morning, or tomorrow morning. A chestnut example:

A foreign company's general manager of the Chinese company tomorrow to go to the European headquarters for half a year debriefing, so he invited the director of the office of the old Wang to his office: "Director Wang, tomorrow morning I flew to the headquarters, you put our departments half a year debriefing of the main points of the information to help me analyze and organize, I debriefing time to use."

Director Wang will be the office to organize the summary information, before the end of the day, the sales director Xiao knocked on the door to invite the old king to go with her to go with the customer (the old king is very good people, the amount of alcohol is also very good). Lao Wang said in the boss of the information, nothing time. Ms. Xiao said, "Let's finish early, you can also go home to organize ah". So Lao Wang traveled.

During the meeting pushed the cups, accidentally drunk, but also went to KTV to dissipate the alcohol. Go home has been cold morning 2 o'clock, the old king suddenly remembered the general manager explained things, self-compassion: "tomorrow morning after work to send the general manager of the flight, it is organized and then sent to his mailbox, he got off the plane can read."

Send the general manager on the plane, before leaving, the general manager asked Lao Wang: "Where is my information?"

Lao Wang: "Last night with Mr. Xiao's customers, went back late, did not finish organizing, I go back and immediately organize, you can open in the mailbox to see it as soon as you get off the plane."

GM: "I would have expected to familiarize myself with a profile on an airplane"!


Sometimes the leader explains things, usually put forward to complete the time requirements, managers in making plans, try to leave an advance, in the leadership of the expected before the submission of task assignments, do not let the leadership to rush.

Some people may say, "I don't know when the leaders are going to aloe me, some leaders are just pushy.

This should be in the daily work of more observation of the leadership of the work habits and requirements, and then put me good time, long time will feel clear, so that neither delay in work, but also the superior relationship to deal with.

(The author of this article Deng Yujin, senior HRD, well-known trainer, the author of "8 practical lessons of recruitment", public number: Deng Yujin HR practice, reproduced, please specify the author and source)

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People struggling in the workplace will encounter a variety of emergencies, such as temporary rush program, overtime in the company to add a dark day; temporarily received the task set by the boss, the requirements of the next day at work to be submitted; at this time, only strict time management to be able to complete the work well.

So, when it comes to such ad hoc tasks that are full of work and require ample time to complete, many people resort to staying up late to do so. There are three reasons for choosing this approach:

1. Modern living habits

In the living habits of the older generation, going to bed early and getting up early is the standard. However, in the life of young people basically can't sleep at night and can't get up in the morning.

With such habits, even if they don't choose to use staying up late to get their work done, they may go to bed late by brushing up on their Twitter feed or rambling, instead wasting time they could be working.

So, when they are faced with a lot of work they are more inclined to choose to spend their evenings getting it done and then choose to get a good night's sleep.

2. Easy to control the completion time

People who stay up late to get work done are able to effectively control their time, and if the work doesn't get done, they can go to bed later until it does.

However, if they choose to get up early to finish the work, they have no way to accurately assess the time to finish the work, and they do not know what time to get up is more appropriate. It will be easy for them to get up too early and not be able to sleep when they finish their work, or to get up too late and not be able to finish their work.

3. More alert thinking at night

Many people believe that after a full night's sleep, people wake up at 5:00 - 6:00 a.m. with more energy and will be more refreshed. But in fact, many people may wake up in the early morning because the quality of sleep last night is not good, or sleep late and produce a more confused state.

At this time of the year work requires the use of coffee, or simple exercise to get yourself into a state of wakefulness quickly so that you can get to work.

And more procrastinating people in the early morning, it is easy because of the state of confusion will give themselves an excuse to take a break from the state, will greatly reduce the efficiency of the work, but also easy to emotional anxiety.

Of course, if you are a person with strict time management, or if you are used to going to bed early and waking up early, it is naturally more suitable to work early than to stay up late for health reasons.

Therefore, people can choose the time of work according to the actual situation when they encounter urgent work.

It is expected that most office workers, especially workaholics who love to work overtime, when faced with a large workload, will not hesitate to choose to stay up all night to finish it without leaving a tail for the next day and get up early the next day to finish it.

First of all, I think that this has something to do with our thinking "today's work, today's end", as long as you do not go to bed, it is still considered that the day is not over, and that psychologically will leave room for tomorrow. This will give the work more space, to give themselves more space to modify. That's why it's better to stay up late and get the work done before you go to bed. In addition, in the evening, late at night, abandon the noise and hustle and bustle of the day, the quiet environment without people disturbing, it is easier to make people clear-headed, active thinking, mental concentration, attention, which can greatly improve work efficiency. The most important point is that the evening time is sufficient and free than the morning. No matter how late it is, staying up in the deep of the night, you will also find it less stressful. And by the next day, you still need to start preparing for a new job the next day during the day, which can easily lead to a situation where one is not finished and another one comes in. As a modern man, late to bed far easier than early to get up, late to bed time is controllable, but early to get up to control the time is more difficult, although in the role of the alarm clock can open your eyes, but the mind and body to complete the rhythm of keeping up with the work state is extremely difficult. Wake up early disoriented state not only wasted time, but also greatly reduce work efficiency. Staying up late to work although greatly hurt the body, but sometimes it is a choice of last resort, as the saying goes, "people in the workplace, can't help it". The face of a large amount of workload, strengthen their business level, choose a convenient way to improve efficiency is the hard truth, always rely on staying up late to complete is not a long-term thing, so long time, the body boiled bad, it will be more than worth the loss.

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Tomorrow will come again and again, and there are so many tomorrows. I live to wait for tomorrow, all things become wasted. You can choose to stay up all night if you can't finish it, and you can't finish it if you get up early the next day, and it will affect the next day's work. If it is not an independent task, it will affect the whole team. I'm not supporting who stay up late to overdraw the body, but you give yourself the goal or the superior account of the task or not, either do not accept, accept to be completed on time, today's work left until tomorrow morning, in fact, is speculation.

Survey data shows that from 2013 to 2018, the average length of sleep for Chinese people dropped from 8.8 hours to 6.5 hours. The biggest reason for this is - work pressure.

1, night work efficiency may be higher

The moon is bright in front of the bed, it's quiet all around, and the night is so nice that you just don't sleep.

Rumor has it that studying the day before an exam will increase your efficiency tenfold, the night before the paper deadline will be filled with ideas, and it's okay to work on a project that will come out tomorrow, it's sure to come out tonight.

This kind of efficiency is created by the sense of urgency of "burning", no way, it will be used in the morning, and must be done tonight no matter what.

2. Self-help for procrastinators

Although severe procrastinators pile things up until the last minute, there is no shortage of friends with "self-awareness", they know that putting the work to tomorrow will definitely be a mistake, so they would rather force themselves to stay up late the night before to finish.

In fact, we are all stealing time. Sometimes it's to feed the family, sometimes it's because of anxiety, and sometimes it's just because you feel that you're exhausted by the chaos of the day, and that only a quiet night really belongs to you, allowing you to think more calmly and handle yourself. Staying up late has become the most convenient way to escape from reality, but also a solution to ease the workload of the next day.

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