The Life of a Person Who Wakes Up Really, Really Early
“Extreme larks” get up naturally when some people have hardly gone to bed.
They walk among us, endowed with a superpower invisible to the naked eye. Before an important early meeting, they never have to forgo a shower and settle for dry shampoo and a baby wipe. They rarely wake with a jolt at 10 in the morning and stare groggily at a phone screen with five missed calls and texts that say, “You on your way? ETA?”
They are people who wake up early—. Not just “early” in the sense of a perky-at-8-a.m. spouse. These are the people whose a decade in the making suggests that the extremely early risers among us might be more common than anyone expected.
