Hi everyone, it's Lucas Miller here, welcome to Radio Headspace and to Monday morning.

I'll be guest hosting Radio Headspace this week and I'm super excited to be here.

I am a cognitive neuroscientist, a human performance researcher, and a lecturer at UC Berkeley's

Haas School of Business.

At Berkeley, I teach an MBA course called Becoming Superhuman and my work is all about

using science to help you get your most important work done in less time with less stress.

Today, we'll talk about chronotypes, which is just the scientific word for when our bodies

naturally want to rest and what our daily energy rhythms look like.

I'll be breaking down the three different chronotypes, why they're so important, and

how knowing your chronotype can dramatically increase both your productivity and your happiness

throughout the day.

A chronotype is really the scientific equivalent of all the different terms you may have heard

out there in the popular psychology world such as Morning Bird or Night Owl.

They're actually three different chronotypes.

The dictates what are your energy peaks, what are your energy dips, and it's really

important to know this, otherwise you may be operating on a schedule that does not align

with your biology.

So on that note, let's do a quick walkthrough of all three chronotypes.

So first, we have type one.

These are AM shifted individuals that's really the scientific term for those who are often

called Morning Birds.

It's about 20 to 25% of the population.

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