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 NIGHT OWLS – THE “B” PEOPLE 

Kisa Fatima Altaf 

Dow University of Health Science 

Corresponding Author: canceria3791@gmail.com 

 

If you find it hard to get up in the morning, don't despair - you're 

not lazy, you're just genetically programmed that way, says the 

B-Society by Chris Morris (2007). A night owl is person who 

tends to stay up until late at night, and the opposite of night owl 

is an early bird, a lark, someone who tends to begin sleeping at a 

time that is considered early and also wakes early. . In many 

countries, early birds are called "A-people" and night owls are 

called "B-people." Some of us are clearly "larks" -early risers- 

while others of us are diversely night owls. The rest of us fall 

more or less in between the two. In study magazine, reported that 

IQ average and sleeping patterns are most definitely related, 

proving that those who play under the moon are, indeed, more 

intelligent human beings said Satoshi kanazawa (2010), a 

psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political 

Science. 

 

Night Owls Have More Stamina 

Stamina in terms of across the board axis. Research has shown 

that night owls can remain focused on tasks at hand longer and 

better than their morning lark counterparts. 

 

They Are More Open Minded 

Things that happen at night are things you can’t get away with 

during the day. It’s the time of booming passionate, underhanded 

trade and unseemly professions. It’s when the bars are opened 

and the poets write. It’s when musicians pour over instruments, 

geniuses have their refinements and artists come alive. They 

would probably be good at cryptic crosswords. There are things 

to be explored at night that early risers will never witness. There 

are ideas articulated and tasks completed that early risers never 

get to finish. Their minds are freer to roam and think at night 

when people are asleep and when you are not absorbing their 

anxious energy (which deters the natural thinking mind). 

Average brains are conditioned to follow this sleep pattern, while 

the more curious, geeky ones want to mock that pattern and 

create their own. 

 

They Are Prone to be Risk Takers: 

This current entrepreneurial age is the perfect time to be a risk-

taker. With so much competition they have to be a little different 

to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Luckily for night owls, 

they are unlike and tend to be bigger risk-takers compared to 

morning people.Psychologists have found that those who stayed 

up later tend to have a higher sense of entitlement and seemed to 

be more exploitative. Evening types were more extroverted, 

more people-oriented. 

 

Teenagers and Night Owls: 

School-age children are commonly early birds, while teenagers 

tend to be night owls, and then as they age, adults gradually 

transition back into morning people," A recent study in Belgium 

found that night owls are able to stay more focused as the day 

goes on, compared with early risers. There late nights are partly 

biologically driven. Hormonal changes during puberty affect the 

body's internal clock, which means most high schoolers -- even 

ones who used to be early risers -- tend to stay up well after dark 

and sleep until noon. 

 

They Make More Money 

According to a research at the University of Madrid (2013), 

because of their higher IQs, creative and risk-taking 

competencies, it makes sense that night owls also tend to earn 

large incomes. This may be the reason why some of the most 

successful people are night owls. 

Stay-up-late types, according to research, attain greater financial 

and professional success on average than those people with 

earlier bedtimes and wake times. President Barack Obama is 

reputed to a night owl as was Charles Darwin, Adolf Hitler, 

Keith Richards, Marcel Proust, Elvis Presley and James Joyce. 

Other night owls such as the former US President Bill Clinton, 

and the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.  Some 

studies have shown that people who stay up late are more 

productive than early risers, and have more stamina around the 

length of their days. On the other hand research indicates that 

people who stay up late are at higher risk for depression. Night 

owls tend to be prone to a host of different health and mood 

disorders, involving just a general sense of mental instability; 

however, depression was by far the most common shared trait 

next to obesity. Studies have also shown night owls are more 

prone to more significant tobacco and alcohol use, as well as 

inclined to additional eating, and also less healthy diets than 

early risers or people with intermediate sleep patterns. But 

research on the impact of chronotype isn't all bad news for night 

owls. Other research has shown that night owls display greater 

reasoning and analytical abilities than their earlier-to-bed 

counterparts.  

Psychologists have found that people who are constantly 

described as “night owls” display more signs of egocentrism, 

Machiavellianism and psychopathic tendencies than those who 

are “morning larks”. Morning people, however, also have upper 

hand. "Larks typically sleep better, have more periodic sleep 

patterns, and have more flexible personalities," said Sharkey 

(2012). They also tend to be happier and feel healthier than B 

people, according to a recent study from the University 

of Toronto. Famous morning larks embrace Napoleon, Ernest 

Hemingway and George W Bush. 

 

CONCLUSION: 

Night owls perform better than early risers at inductive reasoning 

and demonstrate a greater capacity to think conceptually as well 

as analytically. On the other hand, night owls should take 

advantage of their nocturnal productivity, and think about 

alterable businesses that are suitable for them to be the happiest, 

healthiest owl they can be. I think it's more about taking the time 

away from noise, away from draining society, away from other 

people and most do this at night. I doubt one's socio-economic 

status is an indicator of a lower or higher IQ. Studies showed that 

limiting nighttime exposure to artificial light and increasing 

exposure to daytime sunlight can shift sleep-wake cycles earlier. 

The moon is enchanted, however, you can also dance under the 



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sun. Both have jolting energy....isn't it all about balance? 

 

REFERENCES: 

 James, Kyle, March 2007."Late Sleepers in Denmark Rally 

for Societal Change". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved2009-11-

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 Dr. Michael J. Breus, 2013; Board Certified Sleep 

Specialist Night Owls and Early Risers Have Different 

Brain Structures. 

 


