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Author: Till Roenneberg
ISBN : B008XOG2N4
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Download for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns are the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. By understanding and respecting our internal time, we can live better.Direct download links available for Free Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You're So Tired [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 288 pages
- Publisher: Harvard University Press; Tra edition (August 25, 2012)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B008XOG2N4
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First off, I am not a subject matter expert in the realm of "chronobiology". But what Ronneberg describes in this short and very readable introduction to our internal body clocks was my life for the last third of my 30-year military career. As a result, while I can't recommend the book from the researcher angle, I can highly recommend the book from the subject angle. In short, I'm a fan and HIGHLY recommend this book.
Bottom line, Ronneberg's thesis is this: our body clock(s) is(are) real, performs(perform) very important calibrating functions and messing with it(them) has very serious consequences. And from personal experience, I would have to agree. I violated pretty much every "rule" in his book and I wound up paying a very heavy price. Fortunately (though it didn't seem so at the time), mandatory retirement arrived and an inability to go back to work in a second career provided an opportunity to get my clock(s) resynchronized (though not having yet read the book, I had no idea what I was doing other than following what my body was telling me I needed to do).
So what did I do wrong? Well, my work generally entailed long hours in a windowless, fluorescent-lighted, office (no connection with the natural light/dark cycle); too-often, middle-of-the-night phone calls (interrupted sleep cycles); frequent trips across up to 8-10 timezones where I was expected to be at work "bright & early" the day after travelling (unending two-way jet lag); and meetings/events at all hours of the day lasting anywhere from one hour to all day ("social jet lag").
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Internal Time by Till Roennberg is a book about an issue that I have had issues with in the past and that is insomnia. Roennberg explains this idea of social jetlag, which tells us that our sleeping patterns are not solely responsible for our laziness and poor critical thinking. In fact, Roennberg tries to convince his readers that our laziness and poor crticial thinking are a result of a disconnect between our three social clocks. Roennberg argues that these three social clocks determine some of our everyday behaviors and he supports this argument by presenting his research. His method of presenting his reserach proved to be very effective because his explanations are structured and organized. If I had to rate this novel from 1 to 5, I would give this book a rating of 4.5 because Roennberg's research and explanations are organized throughout the entire novel. Internal Time is a great informational book about our biological clock and how it is affected by our everyday life.
Our three social clocks are suprisingly the reason for our laziness and poor critical thinking. If you put yourself in the shoes of the typical college parent, you would want your child to get atleast eight hours of sleep because you believe that amount of sleep will allow your child to perform at his or her highest level. Roennberg argues against this stereotype in this book by explaining the research he has done on many different people, including college students. The most important research, provided by Roennberg, which proves that our social clocks are responsible for our laziness and poor critical thinking was the research done on the life of a pilot.
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