Hidden Pattern of Everyday Life
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The document discusses the significance of timing and circadian rhythms in influencing human decision-making and emotional patterns throughout the day. It highlights how cognitive abilities and moods fluctuate, typically peaking in the morning and declining in the afternoon, suggesting that important tasks should be scheduled according to these natural rhythms. The text also touches on the differences among 'larks', 'owls', and 'third birds', emphasizing the importance of aligning personal chronotypes with the timing of tasks to optimize performance and well-being.
Hidden Pattern of Everyday Life
- 1. Compiled by Col Mukteshwar Prasad(Retd), MTech,CE(I),FIE(I),FIETE,FISLE,FInstOD,AMCSI Contact -9007224278, e-mail –muktesh_prasad@yahoo.co.in for book ”Decoding Services Selection Board” and SSB guidance and training at Shivnandani Edu and Defence Academy Hidden Pattern of Everyday Life Ref- When by Daniel H Pink Connect with Story Telling a Way to improve Personality https://www.slideshare.net/ColMukteshwarPrasad/storey-telling-a-way-to-improve-personality
- 2. Introduction Most of decisions emanate from intuition& guess work we callTiming and is regarded as an Art But Timing is a Science an emerging body of multifaceted , multidisciplinary research area for insight in human condition acts as guidance for working smarter and living better Macy & Golder evaluated twitter and found People use social media to present an ideal face to the world that might mask their true and perhaps less ideal emotions Irony , sarcasm and subtle human tricks can not be detected even by industrial analytic tools because of huge data Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) developed by Economics Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman can reconstruct previous day –chronicling every thing they did what they felt while doing it Consistent pattern across people working hour Positive affect (Emotions such as enthusiasm, confidence , alertness , active, engaged, hopeful) rose in the morning , plummeted in the afternoon and climbed back again in the evening This temporal affective pattern is similar across culture and geographies, days and months Measured using LIWC(Linguistic inquiry Word Count) Oscillation remained same Peak, trough and rebound i.e. Hidden pattern on surface of everyday life crucial , unexpected and revealing
- 7. Biological clocks Play essential role in proper functioning Govern a collection of circadian( circa-around , diem –day) rhythms which set daily backbeat of every creature Suprachiasmatic nucleus ,SCN –a cluster of 20000 cells in hypothalamus inn lower part of brain controls Rise and fall of body temperature Regulates hormones Helps in falling asleep and awaken in morning Daily timer of SCN is little longer than earth taking full rotation 25 hr and 11 mins SCN uses social cues and environmental sig to make small adjustment to bring internal and external cycles in synch in a process called “entertainment” Humans like plant open and close at regular interval though differing from person to person like blood pressure Chronobiologists and other researchers are examining physiological functions like melatonin production and metabolic response including emotions and behaviour Can help us as guidance to configure our own daily life
- 9. Mood swing and stock swing Moods are an internal state how others respond to our words ,but they have external impact Even if we conceal it leaks and shapes how others respond to our words and actions Kahneman et al used DRM to measure “a quality of affect ...:its rhythmicity over course of the day “from list of 12 adjectives like happy , frustrated, enjoying, annoyed found Consistent and strong bimodal pattern Positive affect climbed in the morning hours until it reached an “optimal emotional point “ around mid day .Then their good mood plummeted and stayed low through out afternoon and only to rise again in the evening An early spike , a big drop and a subsequent recovery Negative emotions like feeling frustrated, worried or hassled typically showed reverse pattern rising in afternoon and sinking as day drew to close Combined emotional balance rises in the morning ,dip in the afternoon and rises again in the evening Study of corporate indicate communication with investors and probably critical managerial decisions and negotiations should be conducted early in the day
- 10. Vigilance ,inhibition and the daily secret to high performance Conjunction Fallacy-one of many ways in which reasoning goes away Which is more likely 1. Linda is a bank teller 2.Linda is a bank teller and is active in feminist movement Most people answer –2 (1. intuitive sense right 2.A justice seeking ,antinuke philosophy –an active feminist Correct answer –1 (A mathematical logic –a bank teller who are feminist are a subset of all bank teller and a subset can never be larger than full set Same question when posed at different time say 9 am and 8 pm –probability of getting right answer in morning was better than evening Linda problem is an analytic task .Does not require special creativity or acumen It has single correct answer which can be achieved by logic Politically tinged material about Linda is a distraction Same pattern is held for stereotype Mental keenness shown by rationally evaluating evidence is greater during early in the day Mental squishiness by resorting to stereotype increases as day progresses As an example Jurors rationally decide on criminality rationally in morning and tend to stereotype in the afternoon.
- 11. Vigilance ,inhibition and the daily secret to high performance Effect of time on brain power Cognitive ability do not remain static over course of the day Fluctuations are more extreme than we realize i.e. Almost 20% variance on cognitive undertaking Best time tom perform depends on nature of the task Adults perform best in thinking in the morning When we get up our body temperature rises slowly Rising temp boosts our energy level and alertness This enhances our Executive functioning Ability to concentrate and Powers of deduction For most of us analytical capacities peak in late morning or around afternoon Our mind is in a vigilant mode and distraction as in Linda case is kept outside cerebral gates Vigilance has its limits -alertness and energy level plummet during afternoons thus fall in ability to focus and constrains our inhibition Students score higher in morning than in afternoon (Inhibitory Control- Helps our brain to solve analytic problems by keeping out distraction)
- 12. Insight problem/Inspirational paradox Mareike Wieth and Rose Zacks problem(American Psychologist) Ernesto is a dealer in antique coins . one day someone brings him a beautiful bronze coin . The coin has an emperor’s head on one side and date 544 BC stamped on another. Ernest examines the coin –but instead of buying it ,he calls the police . Why? (Writing BC when Christ was not even born is certainly a fraud) Reasoning in a methodical ,algorithmic way won’t yield correct answer. With insight problem people begin systematic , step by step approach but hit a wall Insight problems require less vigilence and fewer inhibitions Flash of luminance is more likely when guards are gone Few distractions help us spot connection called :Inspirational paradox :Innovation and creativity are greatest when we are at our best ,at least with respect to our circadian rhythms Moods and performance oscillates Moods follow common pattern :a peak ,a trough and a rebound In the morning ,during the peak ,most of us exel in Linda problems-analytic work that requires sharpness , vigilance and focus
- 13. Larks owl and third bird All humans are a “chronotype”-a personal pattern of circadian rhythms that influences our physiology and psychology .Chronobilogists use Munich Chronotype Questionnair(MCQ) or simple question of your behaviour during free day 1.What time do you usually go to sleep 2.what time do you usually wake up 3.What is the middle of those two times i.e. Mid point of your sleep Owls-Wake long after sunrise , detest mornings and don’t begin peaking until late afternoon or early evening Extreme owls outnumber extreme larks Larks and owls are born and not made At puberty children morphing from larks to owl Children peak owliness around 20 years High school and college people are disproportionately owl Men tend towards evenigness
- 14. Larks owl and third bird Larks-Rise early and feel energized during the day but wear out by evening Young children are generally larks Children slowly change to larkiness slowly after 20 years Women towards morningness People above 60 are disproportionately larks Neither owl nor lark-Third bird 60-80% are third bird Children midpoint of sleep is 6 am to 7 am People above 60years change to what they were as a child Men are owlier than women 75- 80% of people are larks or third bird
- 15. Larks owl and third bird Larks- are pleasant ,productive -”introverted , conscientios , agreeable, persistent , suppress ugly impulses and plan for future Owls-display some darker tendencies . More open and extraverted than larks . They are more neurotic and are often impulsive , sensation seeking , live for the moment hedonists . They are more likely than larks to use nicotinic They are more prone to addiction , eating disorders , diabetes,depression and infidelity Owls show greater creativity , superior working memory and score higher in IQ tests
- 17. Synchrony and three types Linda problem Larks could solve problem at 8 am than at 8pm Owls the reverse at 8 pm than at 8 am Jurors Larks declared correct pronouncement in morning and incorrect in the evening using stereotype Owls stereotype in the morning and vigilant ,fair and logical in the evening Coins fraulent Larks illuminance later in the day during less optimal recovery stage when inhibitions had fallen Owls in the morning less optimal time Type, task and time alignment called “Synchrony effect” Owls drive worse in the morning because they are out of synch with their natural cycle of vigilance and alertness Younger people have keener memories than old Difference weakens if synchrony is taken in to account
- 18. Synchrony and three types Morning morality effect-people are less likely to lie and cheat on tasks in the morning generally by larks and third bird. Owls are more ethical in night than in morning The fit between person’s chronotype and time of day offers more complete predictor of person’s ethicality than does time of day alone All of us experience the day in three stages –a peak,a trough and a rebound One in four are owls experiencing reverse order –recivery,trough and peak Figure out your type Understand your task Select appropriate time Nudge your most important work which usually requires vigilance and clear thinking into peak Push your next important tasks that benefit from disinhibition into rebound period No mundane tasks during peak
- 19. DAILY WHEN CHART Lark Third bird Owl Analytical tasks Early morning Early to midmorning Late afternoon and evening Insight tasks Late afternoon/early evening Late afternoon/early evening Morning Making an impression Morning Morning Morning (sorry owl Making a decision Early morning Early to midmorning Late afternoon and evening
- 20. What you do when you have no control over daily schedule Be aware Knowing that you ate operating at suboptimal time you can control your chronotype in small powerful way Owl attending a meeting in morning make a list previous night of everything you need Quick walk before conference Do small good to colleague Extra vigilant during bmeeting Work the margin Larks should not waste morning by concentrating bon most important work Snatch work if possible during your peak time
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