Which chronotype are you? …& what is its productivity Hacks

Sai Rintira
4 min readAug 4, 2021

Getting up early is diligent ?

Working long time is a hard working person?

With those common sayings, is it true?
In fact, different people has certain schedule to adjust their own time to wake up, stay concentrate, and get sleep.

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Saying so with evidence from the scientific research explored the certain schedule for sleeping time and productivity mode result in “chronotype” using analogy of 4 animal type to represent.

Bear | Wolf | Lion | Dolphin

🤔 Let’s assess which chronotype are you & find out its Productivity Hacks!

The Bear Chronotype🐻
Wake up time: 7:00 AM. | Focus time: 10:00 AM — 2:00 PM. | Sleeping time: 11:00 PM

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55% of the population is falling into this chronotype. Starting and ending the day following the sun time similar to a bear that start energetic hunting during the daytimes and after the sunset, its energy drops and becomes its resting time.

This type of people requires at least 8 hours of sleep. The common traits is being extroverted and owns a mellow energy flow.

🐻's Productivity Hacks: 
Schedule meeting in AM, and finish before late afternoon. Focus on important tasks during 10:00AM - 2:00PM and later move to check important notices about the company and pending tasks in Simplifine dashboard in the late afternoon.

The Wolf Chronotype 🐺
Wake up time: 7:30 AM. | Focus time: 5:00 PM — 12:00 AM. | Sleeping time: 12:00 AM

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If you’re one of the person who won’t feel active to work until the sunset OR several snooze from your alarm to wake up in the morning, Congrats! you’re belong in the wolf chronotype, account around 15% of the population.

Typical job for this group is creativity-related work. The working mode is quite opposite to the majority of people. The common traits is highly creative, thoughtful and being introverted.

🐺's Productivity Hacks:
Feeling the most awake if work at home for concentration. Notification will interrupt their creativity flow. Simplifine help them stay focus with prefer notification time at once and still be able to follow-up important company announcement on simplifine dashboard with urgent deadlines in a quick glance.

The Lion Chronotype 🦁
Wake up time: 6:00 AM. | Focus time: 8:00 AM — 12:00 PM. | Sleeping time: 10:00 PM

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If you normally wake up much earlier than others to start your day with several tasks and challenges to deal with like a lion, the king of the jungle…similar to the most of CEO or top leaders. This group of people uses energy during morning and start to gradually drop in the afternoon. To recharge energy at their best for the next day, they will get to bed around 10:00 PM.

The common traits natural leaders and charismatic. 15% of the population are falling into this chronotype.

🦁's Productivity Hacks:
Realize when it is the quitting time and take time for yourself at the end of the day. Those leaders normally schedule with a pack of meetings through entire day. Simplifine help being the assistant with auto-integrate task to your prefer slot in the calendar without leaving the Slack.

The Dolphin Chronotype 🐬
Wake up time: 6:30 AM. | Focus time: 3:00 PM — 9:00 PM. | Sleeping time: 11:30 PM

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Dolphin sleeping nature is being said that its half brain stays awake to sense the danger, the people in this group usually have trouble for deep sleep. Feeling insecure and prefer to work alone resulting in high jump of productivity. Only 10% of the population belong to this group.

The common traits is highly intelligent, creative with scatterbrained ( disorganized and lack of concentration )

🐬's Productivity Hacks: 
The focus moment starts late than the common working time in the afternoon from 3:00 PM due to lack of sleep. Suggest to take small breaks throughout the day to recharge.
Simplifine helps exploring channels filter your interest topics and serves you in precise title of notification of what's happening in the company during your light mode, to protect you draining your energy out.

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Sai Rintira

Business development at HENNGE K.K.,Japan / Former Logistics senior specialist at Toyota APAC HQ, Thailand / Cafe-exploring and illustration is my hobby.