Getting up early is great because no-one in the world (except me) is able to do it, you get extra time to do stuff, you get a nice quiet time when no one else is around to do stuff. Now I want you all to not follow this advice because it would ruin that special magical power I have of being the only person able to get up early.

Also exercise, believe it or not the human body was not designed for thinking, and sitting and studying, it was designed for running around smashing things. From our evolutionary point of view, this whole thinking thing is pretty new.

Your body has all manner of chemicals for making it do stuff like think, it also has stuff for making you run and jump and smash things. However there is a finite amount of chemicals your body has in it, and it has a finite capacity to create these chemicals. If you use up all your thinking chemicals your thinking ability will be limited to your bodies think chemical creation rate.

Now your bodies ability to do stuff is related to its metabolism. The faster the metabolism, the faster it can do stuff like, break down food into useful chemicals, repair the body, make more thinking chemicals.

So if you run out of thinking chemicals, you could drop your thinking rate to the bodies rate of think chemical production, thats not going to be good.

Or you could go for a run and do some exercise, use up all those running, jumping, smashing chemicals that been stinking up yo body chemical store grounds, increase your metabolism to replenish your think chemicals faster, increase the blood flow to your brain, generally ensure your body is working well. After all the mind cannot exist without the body, and a lousy body isn’t conducive to a excellent mind.