Welcome back to savvy psychologist. I'm Dr. Jade Wu. Every week I'll help you

meet life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment.

Would you rather watch a sunrise or count the midnight stars?

Do you have your creative energy and optimistic zeal when you first

pop up in the morning or when everyone else has already gone to bed for the night?

Or how about this? If you had to wake up at 6 a.m. would you look and

feel more like Mary Poppins or Oscar the Grouch? Your answers will depend on your chronotype, a biologically hardwired

tendency for your body and brain to function best at certain times of day. Most of you are probably somewhere in the middle. You don't love waking

up at 5 a.m. for a run, but you're not the type to be buzzing with energy after midnight either.

But there are many of us who have more obviously advanced or delayed chronotypes. That is, we could be extreme

morning larks or night owls.

I'm personally a night owl.

Back in college, I never signed up for classes

starting before 10 a.m.

and I could comfortably stay up past 2 a.m. partying, I mean studying, without my

energy ever flagging. And there was no problem with that in college. I had no 7 a.m. rounds or 8 a.m. meetings.

So my body and brain could happily live on the schedule that they wanted to.

But the further I get into my

professional career, the more my biology has to cater to the big bad world, which

is designed by and for,

Dun-dun-dun, morning people.

I blame Benjamin Franklin.

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