Why Morning People Rule the World Morning people are more proactive - and therefore more successful in their professional lives -- according to new research.

Courtney Rubin:

To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the morning people are different from you and me - or so says new research.

Early birds are more proactive than evening people - and so they do well in business, says Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany.

"When it comes to business success, morning people hold the important cards," Randler told the Harvard Business Review of his research, some of which originally appeared in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. "[T]hey tend to get better grades in school, which gets them into better colleges, which then leads to better job opportunities. Morning people also anticipate problems and try to minimize them. They're proactive." (Not that evening people are life's losers: They're smarter and more creative, and have a better sense of humor, other studies have shown.)

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 17, 2010 3:02 AM
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