How to be a Seattle night owl, for one night

Yeah, Jeannie, what about you? I think by nature I'm a night owl.

If left to my own devices and away from when I'm most expected to do things, which is during the daytime, I will stay up late and I will sleep late.

But that's not... what the world is set up for so I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out what it looks like to give myself night owl space when I can and also respect what I need to do during the day which doesn't necessarily mesh well with the tendencies that I have to stay up and I live with night owls um

My

spouse is a musician, is out like, you know, stays up until two in the morning all the time.

My kid, if left to her to her own devices, would probably stay up all night.

So we're just a mess.

Do you think there's any connection between nighttime and creativity? I feel like I've talked with several folks this month who tie the two together for all kinds of different reasons.

I mean, Dyer, you were talking about that being the time that you can do the stuff you want to do.

I think the key factor I'm thinking of here is isolation.

And that expresses itself in a couple of ways.

One is you are alone.

You get to do the things that you want to do the whole time you want to.

I remember an old article about President Obama and why he was a nighttime person.

It was like no one would bother him at that point.

And that's when he got stuff done.

Tesla was the same way.

However, I'm also thinking of folks like when you're out at night and everything else around in the world is just, you know, like darkened out and you are isolated even with other people and like a coffee shop.

I mean, that's when I think this creativity happens when you don't have someone barking in your ear to go do this thing or get this job done or whatever.

When you're able to just get down and focus, this could happen in the morning.

This can happen at night.

But nighttime is more conducive to it.

I feel like it's just in our genes to do it.

This is why we were around fires back in the day and telling stories.

That's when we huddled around and we got around and that is the time for us when we just focus in on something.